The Piece of String
A thrifty Norman farmer walking into the Goderville market stoops for a bit of string lying in the road, and sees that the harness-maker he has been at law with for years has watched him do it. That afternoon the town crier announces that a wallet has been lost on the same stretch of road, and the mayor sends for him. Maupassant grew up among these people and wrote several dozen stories in their idiom.
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