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AT THE FOOLISH STUDENT'S

 queer-looking man, somewhat resembling a player, and with spectacles on his nose, approached him and greeted him by his name, asking him why he was walking along fidibus fideralla—as if he owned the earth.

"Because I am happy."

"Amen," answered the stranger.

"Is it wrong?"

"Quite the contrary, it is just right. You are to be envied. But are you called, by any chance, Beelzebub, King of the Flies? Both your cheeks are black with them. Why don't you drive them off?"

"Because I like them."

The other burst out laughing, so Gerold added at once, apologetically: "They make such pleasant noises. I don't

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