Fantasy fiction, French -- Translations into English; Gargantua (Legendary character) -- Fiction; Giants -- Fiction
Chapter 4.LIX.--Of the ridiculous statue Manduce; and how and what the
Gastrolaters sacrifice to their ventripotent god
Chapter 4.LX.--What the Gastrolaters sacrificed to their god on interlarded
fish-days
Chapter 4.LXI.--How Gaster invented means to get and preserve corn
Chapter 4.LXII.--How Gaster invented an art to avoid being hurt or touched
by cannon-balls
Chapter 4.LXIII.--How Pantagruel fell asleep near the island of Chaneph,
and of the problems proposed to be solved when he waked
Chapter 4.LXIV.--How Pantagruel gave no answer to the problems
Chapter 4.LXV.--How Pantagruel passed the time with his servants
Chapter 4.LXVI.--How, by Pantagruel’s order, the Muses were saluted near
the isle of Ganabim
Chapter 4.LXVII.--How Panurge berayed himself for fear; and of the huge cat
Rodilardus, which he took for a puny devil
THE FIFTH BOOK.
The Author’s Prologue
Chapter 5.I.--How Pantagruel arrived at the Ringing Island, and of the
noise that we heard
Chapter 5.II.--How the Ringing Island had been inhabited by the Siticines,
who were become birds
Chapter 5.III.--How there is but one pope-hawk in the Ringing Island
Chapter 5.IV.--How the birds of the Ringing Island were all passengers
Chapter 5.V.--Of the dumb Knight-hawks of the Ringing Island
Chapter 5.VI.--How the birds are crammed in the Ringing Island
Chapter 5.VII.--How Panurge related to Master Aedituus the fable of the
horse and the ass
Chapter 5.VIII.--How with much ado we got a sight of the pope-hawk
Chapter 5.IX.--How we arrived at the island of Tools
Chapter 5.X.--How Pantagruel arrived at the island of Sharping
Chapter 5.XI.--How we passed through the wicket inhabited by Gripe-men-all,
Archduke of the Furred Law-cats
Chapter 5.XII.--How Gripe-men-all propounded a riddle to us
Chapter 5.XIII.--How Panurge solved Gripe-men-all’s riddle
Chapter 5.XIV.--How the Furred Law-cats live on corruption
Chapter 5.XV.--How Friar John talks of rooting out the Furred Law-cats
Chapter 5.XVI.--How Pantagruel came to the island of the Apedefers, or
Ignoramuses, with long claws and crooked paws, and of terrible adventures
and monsters there
Chapter 5.XVII.--How we went forwards, and how Panurge had like to have
been killed
Chapter 5.XVIII.--How our ships were stranded, and we were relieved by some
people that were subject to Queen Whims (qui tenoient de la Quinte)
Chapter 5.XIX.--How we arrived at the queendom of Whims or Entelechy
Chapter 5.XX.--How the Quintessence cured the sick with a song
Chapter 5.XXI.--How the Queen passed her time after dinner
Chapter 5.XXII.--How Queen Whims’ officers were employed; and how the said
lady retained us among her abstractors
Chapter 5.XXIII.--How the Queen was served at dinner, and of her way of
eating
Chapter 5.XXIV.--How there was a ball in the manner of a tournament, at
which Queen Whims was present
Chapter 5.XXV.--How the thirty-two persons at the ball fought
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