M ON TRI UL.

I HA

HAD once loft my portmanteau from behind my chaife, and twice got out:

in the rain, and one of the times

up to the knees in dirt, to help the poftilion to tie it on, without being able to find what. was wanting Nor was it till I got to Montriul, upon the landlord's asking me, if I wanted not a fervant, that it occured to me, that that was the very thing-.

A SERVANT! That I do moft fadly, quoth I-Becaufe, Monfieur, faid the landlord, there is a clever young fellow who would be very proud of the honour to ferve an Englishman-But why. English one more than any other? They are fo generous, faid the landlord -I'll be fhot if this is not a livre out of

an

my

my pocket, quoth I to myself, this very night "be fo, Monfieur, added he-Set down one livre more for that, quoth I-It was 'but last night, faid the landlord, qu'un my Lord Anglois prefent oit un ecu a la fille de chambre-Tant pis, pour Madlle Janatone faid I.

But they have wherewithal to

Now Janatone being the landlord's daughter, and the landlord fuppofing I was young in French, took the liberty to inform me, I fhould not have faid tant pis -but, tant mieux. Tant mieux, tou jours, Monfieur, faid he, when there is any thing to be got- -tant pis, when there is nothing. It comes to the fame thing, faid I. Pardonnez moi, faid the landlord.

I CANNOT take a fitter opportunity to obferve once for all, that tant pis and tant mieux being two of the greatest hinges in French converfation, a stranger would do well

well to fet himself right in the use of them, before he gets to Paris.

A PROMPT French Marquis at our ambaffador's table demanded of Mr. H, if he was Mr: H

the

poet? No, faid H-mildly-Tant pis, replied the Marquis.

IT is H the hiftorian, faid an-
-Tant mieux, faid the Mar-

other

quis. And Mr. H.

-, who is a man

of an excellent heart, returned thanks for both.

WHEN the landlord had fet me right in this matter, he called in La Fleur, which was the name of the young man he had fpoke of--faying only first, that as for his talents, he would prefume to fay nothing Monfieur was the beft judge what would fuit him; but for the

fidelity

fidelity of La Fleur, he would ftand responsible in all he was worth.

THE landlord delivered this in a manner which inftantly fet my mind to the bufinefs I was upon-and La Fleur, who ftood waiting without, in that breathlefs expectation which every fon of nature of us have felt in our turns, came in.

MON

M ON TRIU L.

I

AM apt to be taken with all kinds of

people at firft fight; but never more fo, than when a poor devil comes to of fer his fervice to fo poor a devil as myself; and as I know this weakness, I always fuffer my judgment to draw back fome thing on that very account--and this more or lefs, according to the mood I am in, and the cafe and I may add the gender too, of the perfon I am to gd

vern.

WHEN La Fleur entered the room, after every discount I could make for my foul, the genuine look and air of the fellow, determined the matter at once in his favour; fo I hired him firftand then began to inquire what he could

do: