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No one deigns to touch the wolf or hare varieties; but whenever a

person bends down to them, he straightway perceives his mistake,

grows angry and breaks the mushroom or kicks it with his foot: in

thus defiling the grass he acts with great indiscretion.

Telimena gathered neither the mushrooms of wolves nor those of

humankind; distracted and bored, she gazed around with her head

high in air. So the Notary angrily said of her that she was

looking for mushrooms on the trees; the Assessor more maliciously

compared her to a female looking about for a nesting-place.