Émile Zola

An old French peasant, Fouan, divides his farmland among his three children, only to be astonished by their ingratitude and greed

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Jennifer Youard

Jesus Christ was a very flatulent man and in his house many winds did blow, arousing much merriment. No, there was never a dull moment where he was, for he never broke wind without making some funny remark to accompany it. He would have nothing to do with those timid ones, muffled between your buttocks, clumsey, half-hearted little puffs of air. His were always honest explosions, as rousng and hearty as a cannon; and each time, with a jaunty, free and easy lift of his thigh, he would call out to his daughter in a stern, commanding voice:

 'La Trouille, come here at once, for heaven's sake!' 

She would come rushing up and it would go off like a gunshot in the empty air with a vibration that made her jump. 

'Go on after it! And give it a bite to see if it's got any knots in it'

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