Bouqui's Revenge 113

 Half asleep, Madame de Teauteau asked, -What is it,
chrri?
 aMmm...nothing, chdrie,, he replied in a growling
fashion, and he continued to make queer noises like those
of a dog.
 Bouqui came under the window where M'sieur de Teau-
teau and his bride were and continued to sing; and in spite
of himself, Teauteau kept on responding to his master's
song.
 Madame de Teauteau passed her hand over Teauteau's
arms and felt the strange hair. She ran her hand over other
parts of Teauteau's body and there was the same hair every-
where, and on the head the cold nose! And Teauteau
began to lick her face.
 Horror-stricken she jumped out of bed and ran to her
mother, who was in another part of the house.
 <Maman, maman! Teauteau is ill! He's acting like a dog
under the bed cover.,
 The parents and the servants rushed to the room.
 In the meantime Bouqui sang on, in the magic words of
the bocor. At the moment the girl's parents arrived in the
room M'sieur de Teauteau jumped from between the sheets
in the full shape of a white dog. Yapping, he knocked every-
body out of his way and leaped through the window to
eat the sweet potato peel Bouqui threw to him. Everyone
was so busy reviving the fainting girl and her mother that
they did not think to ask what became of the son-in-law.
 The news of her being married to a dog traveled around.
Some people laughed about the incident; some, especially
her close friends, were quite sorry for the girl. Now she
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