Paris herself again in 1878-9 . 54 TARIS HERSELF AGAIN. of water. The dancing sailor leaps ; the magic donkeys agitatotheir hoofs; the tight-rope dancer executes surprising gambadoes;and the monkey in a powdered wig and the full Court costume ofthe time of Louis XV. proceeds to play the Menuet de la Cour ona toy harpsichord, accompanied by a squirrel on the violoncello anda guinea-pig on the harp. Le tour estjoue. The dainty baits havebeen swallowed, and the toyshops begin to do a capital business. Likewise is it both curious and edifying to mark how eagerlythese frivolities are watched by a t
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . 54 TARIS HERSELF AGAIN. of water. The dancing sailor leaps ; the magic donkeys agitatotheir hoofs; the tight-rope dancer executes surprising gambadoes;and the monkey in a powdered wig and the full Court costume ofthe time of Louis XV. proceeds to play the Menuet de la Cour ona toy harpsichord, accompanied by a squirrel on the violoncello anda guinea-pig on the harp. Le tour estjoue. The dainty baits havebeen swallowed, and the toyshops begin to do a capital business. Likewise is it both curious and edifying to mark how eagerlythese frivolities are watched by a throng who, to all appearance,. have not the slightest idea of purchasing so much as a fifty-centwheelbarrow or a one-franc fifty Look at that grimweather-beaten veteran, the specially selected gardien de la paix,who acts as censor of the morals and manners of the PassageJouffroy. He is a Brave, for right across his face he is balafre bythe scar of some bygone sabre-stroke. He has served in brightfields. The Cross of the Legion, the medal for China and for mili-tary merit, the medal for the Italian campaign of 59, and our ownCrimean medal, with two clasps, glitter on his valiant old may have heard the automaton negro pipe, the little bullfinchessing, the Punches and the dolls squeak, the monkey play the* Menuet de la Cour a thousand times. Yet evidently the sight THROUGH THE PASSAGES. 55 and the sounds have not yet palled upon him. He listenslike a three years child to the tootling—a smile of expectationmantles on his battered visage while the monkey is being woundup. He lays his hand on the s
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