Paris herself again in 1878-9 . nd Mes Bottes to emigrate to Queensland ;enlisted the youthful Nana in the Band of Hope, and obtained apermanent situation for the sable-clad Bazouges as a Totally-Abstaining Mute in the employ of the Temperance Funerals Com-pany. x 2 LE CAPHARNAHUM OV LOX KIT. XXI. GINGERBREAD FAIR. April 16. I should have very much liked Professor Henry Morley to havebeen present with me at the Foire au Pain dEpices—the greatGingerbread Fair—which was opened in the presence of an enor-mous concourse of sightseers on Easter Monday, and which willenjoy an existence of three whol
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . nd Mes Bottes to emigrate to Queensland ;enlisted the youthful Nana in the Band of Hope, and obtained apermanent situation for the sable-clad Bazouges as a Totally-Abstaining Mute in the employ of the Temperance Funerals Com-pany. x 2 LE CAPHARNAHUM OV LOX KIT. XXI. GINGERBREAD FAIR. April 16. I should have very much liked Professor Henry Morley to havebeen present with me at the Foire au Pain dEpices—the greatGingerbread Fair—which was opened in the presence of an enor-mous concourse of sightseers on Easter Monday, and which willenjoy an existence of three whole weeks. The learned author of GINGERBREAD FADR. 309 the Annals of Bartholomew Fair might have discovered manypoints of contact, in the way of humours and characteristics,between the existing gingerbread festival at the Barriere du Troneand the extinct saturnalia of Old Smithneld. One cannot carryall the scenes and characters in Ben Jonsons wonderful comedyverbatim ct literatim in ones head ; else might I institute a toler-. A MAKCHANDE DE GATEAUX oil) PARIS HERSELF AGAIN. ably close parallel between the phenomena and the personages sopowerfully portrayed in Bartholomew Fair and the prodigies andpeople visible among the booths at the rond point of the Barrierand in the Cours de Yincennes. Certain I am, however, thatLanthorn Leatherhead was at the Foire aii Pain dEpices with hispuppets; that Dame Ursula, if she were not selling roast pig andbottled ale, was dispensing galette piping hot; and that the Pari-sian Fail was as full of gaping rustics, cynical cockneys, rovingblades, and downright sharpers and cut-purses, as was theBartlemy of old. The French friend with whom I took counsel prior to visitingthe affair advised me to go thither in a strictly buttoned-up con-dition. Fairs and racecourses he declared • fourmillaient de pick-pockets ; but he was good enough to add, by way of rider, that thegreat majority of ces messieurs were English thieves. TheFrench have a curious
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