The innocents abroad; . hoppers;)change and takeroast chicken and sal-ad; then strawberrypie and ice cream;then green figs,pears, oranges, greenalmonds, &c.; finallycoffee. Wine with every course, of course, being in France. With such a cargoon board, digestion is a slow process, and we must sit long inthe cool chambers and smoke—and read French newspapers,which have a strange fashion of telling a perfectly straightstory till you get to the nub of it, and then a word drops inthat no man can translate, and that story is ruined. An em-bankment fell on some Frenchmen yesterday, and the papersare
The innocents abroad; . hoppers;)change and takeroast chicken and sal-ad; then strawberrypie and ice cream;then green figs,pears, oranges, greenalmonds, &c.; finallycoffee. Wine with every course, of course, being in France. With such a cargoon board, digestion is a slow process, and we must sit long inthe cool chambers and smoke—and read French newspapers,which have a strange fashion of telling a perfectly straightstory till you get to the nub of it, and then a word drops inthat no man can translate, and that story is ruined. An em-bankment fell on some Frenchmen yesterday, and the papersare full of it to-day—but whether those sufferers were killed,or crippled, or bruised, or only scared, is more than I can pos-sibly make out, and yet I would just give any thing to know. We were troubled a little at dinner to-day, by the conductof an American, who talked very loudly and coarsely, andlaughed boisterously where all others were so quiet and well-behaved. He ordered wine with a royal flourish, and said:. R1^,GI^G FOR SOAP. 100 AN AMEKICAN, SIK t I never dine without wine, sir, (wliicli was a painful false-hood,) and looked around upon the company to bask in tlieadmiration he expected to find in their faces. All these airs in a land where they wonldas soon expect to leave tliesoup out of the bill of fareas the wine!—in a landwhere wine is nearly as
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