“This little rosebush that you gave me this winter, it nicely reminded me of you when you had smallpox.”
“Ah! that’s sweet!”
“Yes, because of the buds!” [a synonym for pimples]
(Le Journal amusant, Paris, 1871)
Parisian sketches
“This little rosebush that you gave me this winter, it nicely reminded me of you when you had smallpox.”
“Ah! that’s sweet!”
“Yes, because of the buds!” [a synonym for pimples]
(Le Journal amusant, Paris, 1871)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 