of them; but 'twas nothing but the account of his miserable

feelings.

I met Smelfungus in the grand portico of the Pantheon :he was just coming out of it. -'Tis nothing but a huge cock-pit,* said he.I wish you had said nothing worse of the Venus of Medicis, replied I;-for in passing through Florence, I had heard he had fallen foul upon the goddess, and used her worse than a common strumpet, without the least provocation in

nature.

I popp'd upon Smelfungus again at Turin, in his return home; and a sad tale of sorrowful adventures he had to tell, wherein he spoke of "moving accidents by flood and field, and of the cannibals who each other eat the Anthropophagi." -He had been flay'd alive, and bedevill'd, and used worse than St. Bartholomew, at every stage he had come at.

-I'll tell it, cried Smelfungus, to the world.better tell it, said I, to your physician.

You had

Mundungus, with an immense fortune, made the whole tour; going from Rome to Naples,—from Naples to Venice, -from Venice to Vienna,-to Dresden, to Berlin, without one generous connection or pleasurable anecdote to tell of; but he had travell'd straight on, looking neither to his right hand nor his left, lest Love or Pity should seduce him out of his road.

Peace be to them, if it is to be found; but Heaven itself, was it possible to get there with such tempers, would want objects to give it;-every gentle spirit would come flying upon the wings of Love to hail their arrival.-Nothing would the souls of Smelfungus and Mundungus hear of but fresh anthems of joy, fresh raptures of love, and fresh congratulations of their common felicity.I heartily pity them: they have

• Vide S-'s Travels

brought up no faculties for this work and was the happiest mansion in Heaven to be allotted to Smelfungus and Mundungus, they would be so far from being happy that the souls of Smelfungus and Mundungus would do penance there to all eternity.

I HAD once lost my portmanteau from behind my chaise, and twice got out in the rain, and one of the times up to the knees in dirt, to help the postilion to tie it on, without being able to find out what was wanting. Nor was it till I got to Montriul, upon the landlord's asking me if I wanted not a servant, that it occurred to me that

that was the very thing.

Because,

A servant! that I do, most sadly, quoth I. Monsieur, said the landlord, there is a clever young fellow who would be very proud of the honour to serve an English-But why an English one more than any other?

man.

-I'll be shot if this is not a livre out of my pocket, quoth I to myself, this very night.- -But they have wherewithal to be so, Monsieur, added he.Set down one livre more for that, quoth I

They are so generous, said the landlord.

It was but last night, said the landlord, qu'un my Lord Anglois présentoit un écu a la fille de chambre.- -Tant pis pour Mademoiselle Janatone, said I.

Now Janatone being the landlord's daughter, and the landlord supposing I was young in

French, took the liberty to inform me I

should not have said tant pis;
-but tant mieux. Tant mieux,
toujours, Monsieur, said he, when
there is anything to be got;-tant
pis, when there is nothing.
comes to the same thing, said I.
Pardonnez-moi, said the landlord

It

I cannot take a fitter opportunity to observe, once for all, that tant pis and tant mieux being two of the great hinges in French conversation, a stran. ger would do well to set himself right in the use of them, before he gets to Paris.

A prompt French Marquis, at our Ambassador's table, demanded of Mr. H, if he was H the poet? No, said Mr. H. mildly.- Tant pis, replied the Marquis. the historian, said another. -Tant nueux,

-It is H said the Marquis. And Mr H, who is excellent heart, returned thanks for both.

a

man of an

When the landlord had set me right in this matter, he called in La Fleur, which was the name of the young man he had spoken of, saying only first, that, as for his talents, he would presume

to say nothing-Monsieur was the best judge what would suit him; but for the fidelity of La Fleur, he would stand responsible in all he was worth.

The landlord delivered this in a manner which instantly set my mind to the business I was upon;-and La Fleur, who stood waiting without, in that breathless expectation which every son of Nature of us have felt in our turns, came in.