English Pharisees and French Crocodiles

are of his pence, and has no need of any French John Bright to tell him that if he does so, the pounds will take care of themselves; it is a sentiment inborn in him. If you wish to make him happ

the odds are ten to one that he w

hen he buys it, and it belongs to him, as my black coat belongs to me. His food costs him about fourpence or fivepence a day at the outside, but it is wholesome and abundant. He kee

s means to send a basin of soup to a neighbor whom he knows to be in want of one. It is only for the loafer that he

he fact that changes of government have always been made in Paris without his sanction, or even his opinion being asked for; and that the seven million five hundred thousand men who vote for the Republi

a Plebiscite was; but he went to see

married,

nsieur l

they make you say

le curé, they ma

t is all the Emperor asks

nt and threw his oui

He has not forgotten the tithe and the corvée, nor the days when the monks used to come and pay little visi

ts his parish priest, he touches his cap, b

t for the purpose of adding up his little accounts. As to letter-writin

re to talk to him of emigration, he would stare and ask you what crime he had committed to

ng round the world. He will

arth we live on, he would fain have seen the name of his dear village on it. He doubts not that the earth is round, since his curé and his

e the Universal Exhibition. Such was their suspicion of the gay capital that, before setting out,

satisfied with very little in the days of his strength, because the prospect of eating his own bread when his strength is gone makes him happy. He is thrifty and self-denying, but he is not deficient in any of the generous sentiments. He befriends his poorer relatives, he can be hospitable and charitable, and a patriot, too, when occasion calls, as history has proved. But he is no f

at the fair or at the market, that J

e, he will probably be asked a good price for it. So it is only cautiously, and with a look of indifference on his face, that he at length draws near. Next, taking up the coveted object with the limpest

g taken a few steps, he brings up, comes back, and indicating the ob

you want

the face he makes

y before he exclaims: "You mea

carrying his purchase in triumph, and you

as he whom the Hebrew king had in his mind's eye, as he wrote: "It is naught,

remarkable when he has to p

epths of a long purse, from which it is only to be extracted with difficulty, and this pu

g the leather string, he is as unhappy-looking a creature as you may well behold. He rarely faces the enemy on these occasions. He turns his back to you, and pretends to have grea

you, holds it out, draws it back, but eventually makes up h

n him in; but, as it is too late to draw back, he