Excerpt from The Works of Francis Rabelais, Vol. 4 of 4: Translated From the French, With Explanatory NotesThe day that we landed 111 the 1sland happened to be that whlch the den] had fixed for the combat. N ow the countryman, hanng, l1ke a good cathohc, very fairly confessed h1mself, and recelved, bet1mes in the mormug, by the advice of the near, had h1d h1mself, all but the snout, in the holy water-pot, in the posture 1n whwh we found him and Just as they were tellmg na the story, news came that the old woman had fooled the den], and gamed the field. You may not be sorry, perhaps, to hear how this happened.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.