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Babille-babou, said he, shrugging up his shoulders, quivering all over with fear, there will be the devil upon dun.

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Babille-babou, said he, shrugging up his shoulders, quivering all over with fear, there will be the devil upon dun.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The babou addressed me in excellent English, and after some preliminary inquiries as to my stay in Calcutta, accompanied by hospitable invitations, he gradually began, in response to my evident desire, to talk of the hopes and fears of the new party.

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Here comes a young babou of my acquaintance, to whom I will make you known.

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Babille-babou, said he, shrugging up his shoulders, quivering all over with fear, there will be the devil upon dun.

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Just as I was reaching out my hand to take that of the babou, in compliance with Bhima's introduction, an enormous adjutant -- one of the great pouched cranes (_arghilahs_) that stalk about Calcutta under protection of the law, and do much of the scavenger-work of the city -- walked directly between us, eyeing each of us with his red round eyes in a manner so ludicrous that we all broke forth in a fit of laughter that lasted for several minutes, while the ungainly bird stalked away with much the stolid air of one who has seen something whereof he thinks but little.

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At the close of our conversation, which was long and to me intensely interesting, the babou informed us that he had recently become interested with a company of Englishmen in reclaiming one of the numerous and hitherto wholly unused islands in the Sunderbunds for the purpose of devoting it to the culture of rice and sugar-cane, and that if we cared to penetrate some of the wildest and most picturesque portions of that strange region he would be glad to place at our disposal one of the boats of the company, which we would find lying at

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