7Fait faire à Fabien fourbe et fautif force farces fausses et fantasques
(Making Fabien cunning and guilty, forces wrong and fantastical jokes.)
8“Tonton, ton thé t’a-t-il ôté ta toux,” disait la tortue au tatou. “Mais pas du tout,” dit le tatou. “Je tousse tant que l’on m’entend de Tahiti à Tombouctou.”
(“Uncle, your tea has cured your cough,” said the tortoise to the armadillo.””Not at all,” said the armadillo. “I cough so much that you can hear me from Tahiti to Timbuktu.”)
9L’Arabe Ali est mort au lit. Moralité : Maure Ali, t’es mort alité
(The Arab Ali died in bed. Morality: Maure Ali, you died in bed)