Paris herself again in 1878-9 . hich I offered him. Nous sommes des gens de cceur, heremarked loftily. Yet this Brave was a wretchedly careless bumped against or locked the wheels of innumerable vehicles;one of the shafts of the victoria was badly splintered in the middleand bound up with rope, and his horse was a miserable jibber—agutter-jibber, with a propensity to lurch into every kennel that hecame near, and to grind the near wheels of the victoria againstevery kerbstone. There was a prodigious multitude—over a hundred thousand2>ersons, I should say—in the Champ de Mars and th
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . hich I offered him. Nous sommes des gens de cceur, heremarked loftily. Yet this Brave was a wretchedly careless bumped against or locked the wheels of innumerable vehicles;one of the shafts of the victoria was badly splintered in the middleand bound up with rope, and his horse was a miserable jibber—agutter-jibber, with a propensity to lurch into every kennel that hecame near, and to grind the near wheels of the victoria againstevery kerbstone. There was a prodigious multitude—over a hundred thousand2>ersons, I should say—in the Champ de Mars and the Troca-dero yesterday; and in many of the cross avenues of the Exhibitionbuilding itself, such as the galleries devoted to glass, furniture,jewelry, bronzes, ceramics, feminine apparel, and the rich materialspertaining thereto, circulation, owing to the density of the crowd,was almost impossible. There were a fair share of well-dressedpeople, including cohorts of young ladies escorted by vigilant 234 PARIS HERSELF mammas; but the bulk of the visitors seemed to me to be provin-cials—small country tradesmen, farmers, and downright peasantsin blouses, clouted shoes, and broadbrimmed or coach-wheel*hats, the majority of them being accompanied by their femalebelongings. There were likewise many working men from remotedistricts, whose travelling expenses had been paid out of the pro-ceeds of that National Lottery which is now in the twelfth million GOING ! GOING ! 235 of its emission of shares. I noticed, also, a considerable sprinklingof village cures and primary schoolmasters—you can always tellthe primary schoolmaster by the fidelity with which he follows atthe skirts of the soutane of his parish priest, and the obsequiousmanner in which he smiles and rubs his hands whenever Monsieurle Cure addresses him. In particular may you be certain that hisprofession is the educational one if there happen to be any childrenin the party who have come up from a neighbouring-
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