20. How Bouqui Went to Sell a Bag of Sand.


 Cric ?
 Crac !

JT was the pisquette season. Bouqui and Malice decided
to buy a bois-fouillW and a net to catch pisquettes, which are
tiny fish, no bigger than three grains of rice put together.
Bouqui had been sleeping at Malice's house so they could
watch for the sign in the sky which would mean that the
pisquettes had come in.
 One morning long before dawn, Malice saw a conti-
nous lightning on the horizon, the sign he had been looking
for. He called Bouqui, and they put all their equipment into
the bois-fouillg and rowed out on the sea.
 When they were far out, Malice said, aThe pisquettes
are in. Look at all the fishermen in their bois-fouilles catch-
ing them by the basket full.
 tWe'll catch enough pisquettes to make me rich over
night. I'll eat pisquettes stew, fried pisquettes, and I'll make
pisquettes cakes and dry them to have the year around.
That will be what I don't sell, of course,D said Bouqui.
 When they came to the place where the pisquettes were,
Malice told Bouqui to throw the net in. Bouqui unloaded it