But here my heart is wrung with pity and fellow-feeling, when I reflect what miseries must have been their lot, and how bitterly so refined a people must have smarted, to have forced them upon the use of it——

Grant me, O ye powers which touch the tongue with eloquence in distress!whatever is my cast, grant me but decent words to exclaim in, and I will give my

nature way.

But as these were not to be had in France, I resolved to take every evil just as it befel me, without any exclamation at all.

La Fleur, who had made no such covenant with himself, followed the bidet with his eyes till it was got out of sight; and then you may imagine, if you please, with what word he closed the whole affair.

As there was no hunting down a fright

ened horse in jack boots, there remained no alternative but taking La Fleur either behind the chaise, or into it——————

I preferred the latter, and in half an hour we got to the post-house at Nampont.

NAMPONT.

THE DEAD ASS.

-AND this, said he, putting the remains

of a crust into his wallet-and this should have been thy portion, said he, hadst thou been alive to have shared it with me-I thought, by the accent, it had been an apostrophe to his child; but it was to his ass, and to the very ass we had seen dead in the road, which had occasioned La Fleur's misadventure. The man seemed to lament it much; and it instantly brought into my mind Sancho's lamentation for his; but he did it with more true touches of nature.

The mourner was sitting upon a stone bench at the door, with the ass's pannel and its bridle on one side, which he took