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 for their feelings that it was enough to make a dog laugh.

Often Pierre would take up a bit of something they had offered him daintily between his lips and stand holding it looking imploringly at them, as much as to say, "You see I would eat it if I possibly could, but really it is quite out of the question." Then he would finally drop the food, and go and lick the mistress's hands with his soft tongue by way of apology.

The only things they ever discovered that he would eat after much experimenting were raw eggs, cream, porterhouse steak, macaroons, nabiscos, lady-fingers, and the frosting from cake.

So it will be seen Pierre was a most perplexing boarder, and a costly one as well.

The author would have fits of sternness with him, saying that he must eat what