Ladies and Gentlemen!
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Ladies and gentlemen!"
Silver mines, gold mines, diamond mines are mere Mulligan stew and ratatouille compared to my coal. But—are you going to say—you must be selling your stocks for a million? I don't sell my stocks, gentlemen, I give them away against two measly hundred francs. I give two for the price of one, I give a needle, a cotton-bud, a bodkin, and I give you my blessing to cap it all... Now let's hear that big drum!"
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A peddler stands at the rear of a carriage and sells stocks to the crowd gathered around him as his sidekick beats a drum. The caption reads in the original French:
Messieurs et dames !
— Les mines d’argent, les mines d’or, les mines de diamant ne sont que de la pot-bouille, de la ratatouille en comparaison de ma houille… Mais (que vous m’allez dire), tu vends alors tes actions un million ? Mes actions, messieurs, je ne les vends pas je les donne pour deux cents misérables francs, j’en donne deux pour une, je donne une aiguille, un cure-oreille, un passe-lacet, et je vous donne encore ma bénédiction par-dessus le marché… En avant la grosse caisse !
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