Naples to Venice from Venice to Vienna Drefden, to Berlin, without one generous connection or pleasurable anecdote to tell of; but he had travell'd ftraight on looking neither to his right hand or his left, left Love or Pity fhould feduce him out of his road.

Peace be to them! if it is to be found; but heaven itself, was it poffible to get there with fuch terapers, would want objects to give it every gentle spirit would come flying upon the wings of Love to hail their arrival Nothing would the fouls of Smelfungus and Mundungus hear of, but fresh anthems of joy, fresh raptures of love, and fresh congratulations of their common felicity -I heartily pity them they have brought up no faculties for this work; and was the happiest manfion in heaven to be allotted to Smelfungus and Mundungus, they would be fo far from being happy, that the fouls of Smelfungus and Mundungus would do penance there to all eternity.

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MONTRIUL.

I had once loft my portmanteau from behind my chaife, and twice got out in the rain, und one of the times up to the knees in dirt, to help the postilion to tie it on, without being able to find out what was wanting Nor was it till I got to Montriul, upon the landlord's afking me if I wanted not a fervant, that it occurred to me, that that was the very thing.

proud of the

A fervant! That I do moft fadly, quoth IBecause, Monfieur, faid the landlord, there is a clever young fellow, who would be very honour to ferve an Englishman glish one, more than any other? nerous, faid the landlord

But

why an En

They are fo ge

I'll

be shot if this is

quoth I to myself

not a livre out of my pocket, this very night

But they have wherewithal to be

fo, Monfieur, added he Set down one livre more

Now Janatone being the landlord's daughter, and the landlord fuppofing I was young in French, took the

liberty to inform me, I fhould not have faid tant pis

but, tant mieux. Tant mieux, toujours, Monfieur, faid he, when there is any thing to be got tant pis, when there is nothing. It comes to the fame thing, faid I. Pardonnez moi, faid the landlord.

cannot take a fitter opportunity to obferve once for all, that tant pis and tant mieux being two of the great hinges in French converfation, a stranger would do well to fet himself right in the use of them, before he gets to Paris.

the

A prompt French Marquis at our ambaffador's table demanded of Mr. H, if he was H poet? No, faid H- mildly Tant pis, replied the Marquis.

It is H. the hiftorian, faid another

mieux, faid the Marquis.

Tant

And Mr H —,

who

is a man of an excellent heart, return'd thanks for

both.

4

ter,

When the landlord had fet me right in this mathe called in La Fleur, which was the name of the young man he had spoke of faying only first. That as for his talents, he would prefume to say nothing Monfieur was the best judge what would fuit him; but for the fidelity of La Fleur, he would Rand refponfible in all he was worth.

The

The landlord deliver'd this in a manner which inftantly fet my mind to, the bufinefs I was upon and La Fleur, who ftood waiting without, in that breathless expectation which every fon of nature of us have felt in our turns 2 came in.

MONTRI UL.

I am apt to be taken with all kinds of people at firit fight; but never more fo, than when a poor devil comes to offer his fervice to fo poor a devil as myfelf; and as I know this weakness, I always suffer my judgment to draw back fomething on that very and this more or lefs, according to the mood I am in, and the cafe and I may add the gender too, of the perfon I am to govern.

account

When La Fleur enter'd the room, after every dif count I could make for my foul, the genuine look and air of the fellow determined the

in his favour; fo I hired him first

matter at ence

and then began

to inquire what he could do: But I fhall find out

his talents, quoth I, as I want them

Frenchman can do every thing.

befides, a

Now

Now poor La Fleur could do nothing in the world but beat a drum, and play a march or two upon the fife. I was determined to make his talents do; and can't fay my weakness was ever fo infulted by my wifdom, as in the attempt.

La Fleur had fet out early in life, as gallantly as most Frenchmen do, with ferving for a few years; at the end of which, having fatisfied the fentiment, and found moreover, That the honour of beating a drum was likely to be its own reward, as it open'd no further track of glory to him terres, and lived comme il plaifoit à Dieu that is to fay, upon nothing.

he retired à fes

And fo, quoth Wifdome, you have hired a drummer to attend you in this tour of your's thro' France and Italy! Pfah! faid I, and do not one half of our gentry go with a hum-drum compagnon de voyage the fame round, and have the piper and the devil and all to pay befides? When man can extricate himself with an equivoque in fuch an unequal match But you can do fomething else, O qu'oui! he could make

he is not ill off La Fleur? faid I

fpatterdashes, and play Bravo! faid Wisdome

a little upon the fiddle

Why, I play a bafs myself,

faid I we fhall do very well. You can fhave, and dress a wig a little, La Fleur? He had all the difpofitions in the world

It is enough for heaven!