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seventy-five uncles and aunts, twelve hundred cousins of both sexes, three hundred and eighty daughters-in-law and twelve thousand great-grandsons!"
No doubt his anger made him exaggerate a little; but Tyltyl listened without protest and said, very politely:
"I beg your pardon, Sir, for the responsibility alone for the grave measures that have become necessary."
"Here they come!" said the Fir-tree, looking over the top of the other Trees. "They are following the Rabbit … I can see the souls of the Horse, the Bull, the Ox, the Cow, the Wolf, the Sheep, the Pig, the Goat, the Ass and the Bear…"
All the Animals now arrived. They walked on their hind-legs and were dressed like disturbing you…. The Cat said that you would tell us where the Blue Bird was." The Oak was too old not to know all there was to know about Men and Animals. He smiled in his beard when he guessed the trap laid by the Cat and he felt very glad at it, for he had long wished to revenge the whole forest for the slavery to which Man had subjected it. "It's for the Fairy BĂ©rylune's little girl, who is very ill," the boy continued. "Enough!" said the Oak, silencing him. "I do not hear the Animals . . Where are they?.... All this concerns them as much as us .... We, the Trees, must not assume
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