AND fo, quoth Wisdom, you have hired a drummer to attend you in this tour of your's through France and Italy! Pfha! faid I, and do not half of our gentry go with a humdrum compagnon du voyage the fame round, and have the piper and the devil and all to pay befides? When a man can extricate himfelf with an equivoque in fuch an unequal he is not ill off match But you can do fomething else, La Fleur ? -he could make faid I -O qu'oui fpatterdashes, and play a little upon the -Bravo! faid Wifdom fiddle Why, I play a bafs myfelf, faid I we fhall do very well. You can fhave, and dress a wig a little, La Fleur? He had all the difpofitions in the world It is enough for heaven! faid I, on one fide of my chair, and a French valet, with as much hilarity in his countenance as ever nature painted in one, on the other I was fatisfied to my heart's content with my empire; and if monarchs knew what they would be at, they might be as fatisfied as I was. MONTRI UL. S La Fleur went the whole tour of A France and Italy with me, and will be often upon the stage, I must interest the reader a little further in his behalf, by faying, that I had never lefs reason to repent of the impulfes which generally do determine me, than in regard to this fellow he was a faithful, affectionate, fimple foul as ever trudged after the heels of a philofopher; and notwithstanding his talents of drum-beating and fpatterdafh making, which, though very good in themselves, happened to be of no great fervice to me, yet was I hourly recompenced by the festivity of his temper—it fupplied all defects-I had a constant refource in his looks in all difficulties and diftreffes of my own-I was going to have added, added, of his too; but La Fleur was out of the reach of every thing; for whether 'twas hunger or thirst, or cold or nakednefs, or watchings, or whatever stripes of ill-luck La Fleur met with in our journeyings, there was no index in his phyfiog nomy to point them out by-he was eternally the fame; fo that if I am a piece of a philofopher, which Satan now and then puts it into my head I am--It always mortifies the pride of the conceit, by reflecting how much I owe to the complexional philofophy of this poor fellow, for fhaming me into one of a better kind. With all this, La Fleur had a small cast of the coxcomb -but he feemed at firft fight to be more a coxcomb of nature than of art; and before I had been three days in Paris with him-he feemed to be no coxcomb at all. MON TRIU L. UL. TH HE next morning La Fleur entering upon his employment, I delivered to him the key of my portmanteau, with an inventory of my half a dozen fhirts and filk pair of breeches; and bid him faften all upon the chaife-get the horfes put to- -and defire the landlord to come in with his bill. C'est un garçon du bonne fortune, faid the landlord, pointing through the window to half a dozen wenches who had got round about La Fleur, and were moft kindly taking their leave of him, as the poftilion was leading out the horses. La Fleur kiffed all their hands round and round again, and thrice he wiped his eyes, and |