CHAPTER VIII

Letter from my father to General Brune on my birth--The postscript--My godfather and godmother--First recollections of infancy--Topography of the château des Fossés and sketches of some of its inhabitants--The snake and the frog--Why I asked Pierre if he could swim--Continuation of _Jocrisse_

## CHAPTER IX Mocquet's nightmare--His pipe--Mother Durand--Les bêtes _fausses_ et le _pierge_--M. Collard--My father's remedy--Radical cure of Mocquet

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