wings of Love to hail their arrival- Nothing would the fouls of Smelfungus and Mundungus hear of, but fresh anthems of joy, freth raptures of love, and fresh congratulations of their common felicity—I heartly pity them: they have brought up no faculties for this work; and was the happiest mansion in heaven to be allotted to Smelfungus and Mundungus, they would be fo far from being happy, that the fouls of Smelfungus and Mundungus would do penance there to all eternity.

MONTRIUL.

I 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 out what was wantingNor was it till I got to Montriul, upon the landlord's afking me if I wanted not a fervant, that it occurred to me, that that was the very thing.

A fervant! That I do moft fadly, quoth IBecause, Monfieur, faid the landlord, there is a clever young fellow, who would be very proud of the honour to ferve an Englishman— But why an 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 my pocket, quoth I to myself, this very nightBut they have wherewithal to be fo, Monfieur, added he- Set down one livre more for that, quoth I-It was but last night, faid the land. lord, qu'un my Lord Anglois prefentoit un ecu à la fille de chambre-Tant pis, pour Mad" Fanatone, faid I.

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, toujours, Monfieur, faid he, when there is any thing to be got-tant pis, when there is nothing. It comes to the fame thing said I. Pardonnés moi, said the landlord.

I cannot

I cannot take a fitter opportunity to obferve once for all, that tant pis and tant mieux being two of the great hinges in french conversation, a stranger would do 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 H-- the poet? No, faid H-mildly-Tant pis, replied the Marquis."

It is H the hiftorian, faid another -Tant mieux, faid the Marquis. And Mr. H-, who is a man of an excellent heart, return'd 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 offaying only firft, That as for his talents, he would prefume to fay nothing-Monfieur was the best judge what would fuit him; but for the fidelity of La Fleur, he would stand re fponfible in all he was worth.

The landlord deliver'd this in a manner which inftantly fet my mind to the business I was upon, and La Fleur, who flood waiting without, in that breathlefs expectation which every fon of nature of us have felt in our turns, came in.

MONTRI UL.

I AM apt to be taken with all kinds of peo

ple at first fight; but never more fo, than when a poor devil comes to offer his fervice to fo poor a devil as myfelf; and as I know this weakness, I always fuffer my judgment to draw back fomething on that very accountand 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 govern.

(When La Fleur enter'd 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; so I hired him first-and then began to inquire what he could do: But I fhall find out his talents, quoth I, as A a

I want

I want them-befides, a Frenchman can do every thing.

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-Now poor La Fleur could do nothing in the world but beat a drum, and play a march or two upon the fife. I was determined to make his talents do; and can't fay my weaknefs was ever fo infulted by my wifdom, as in the attempt.

La Fleur had fet out early in life, as gallantly as moft Frenchmen do, with ferving for a few years; at the end of which, having fatisfied the fentiment, and found moreover, That the honour of beating a drum was likely to be its own reward, as it open'd no further track of glory to him-he retired à fes terres, and lived comme il plaifoit à Dieu-that is to fay, upon nothing,

-And fo, quoth Wisdome, you have hired a drummer to attend you in this tour of your's thro' France and Italy! Plah! faid I, and do not one half of our gentry go with a humdrum compagnon de Voyage the fame round, and have the piper and the devil and all to pay

befides ?