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All the blousard cares about the matter, however, is that it gives him work, and that is what he craves.

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They wear a coat sometimes, but it is a marvel of a coat, and was in the last stages of tottering old age before it fell to the blousard.

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Ordinarily, the poorest blousard has a new blouse once in five or ten years, and a new pair of wooden shoes in the same time; but the scavenger's apparel is for ever old, and he never lays it off.

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Why, our blousard would think his fortune was made if he could get a sou for it.

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Later, an industrious blousard of my acquaintance was arrested at his work, and sent to prison for the same offence: he was a carriage-maker.

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A respectable blousard -- a carpenter or a shoemaker or a member of any honest trade -- would scorn to be seen in any other dress but his neat blouse, unless on some great day, a fete, his wedding or at church, when he wears his only coat, or his father's or a friend's.

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It will be seen that clothing is inexpensive to the blousard, and as the fashions _never_ change with him, he never lays aside a garment till it is quite worn out.

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The blousard of Paris may be either a thief or a working-man: he is always the one or the other, and sometimes he is both.

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