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--AND fo, quoth Wisdom, you have hired a drummer to attend you in this tour of your's through France and Italy! Psha! 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 such an unequal match he is not ill off - But

you can do fomething else, La Fleur ? faid IO quoui he could make spatterdashes, and play a little upon the fiddle Bravo! faid Wisdom Why, I play a bass myself, said I-we shall do very well. You can shave, and dress a wig a little, La Fleur? He had all the dispositions in the world -It is enough for heaven! faid I,

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on one fide of my chair, and a French walet, 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.

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S La Fleur went the whole tour of France and Italy with me, and will be often upon the stage, I must interest the reader a little further in his behalf, by saying, that I had never less reason to repent of the impulses 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 spatterdash making, which, though very good in themselves, happened to be of no great service 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

distresses of my own-I was going to have added,

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added, of his too; but La Fleur was out of the reach of every thing; for whether 'twas hunger or thirst, or cold or nakedness, or watchings, or whatever stripes of ill-luck La Fleur met with in our journeyings, there was no index in his physiog nomy to point them out by-he was eternally the fame; fo that if I am a piece of a philosopher, 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 philosophy of this poor fellow, for shaming me into one of a better kind. With all this, La Fleur had a fmall cast of the coxcomb - but he seemed 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 seemed to be no coxcomb at all.

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HE next morning La Fleur enter-ing upon his employment, I delivered to him the key of my portmanteau,

with an inventory of my half a dozen shirts and filk pair of breeches; and bid him fasten all upon the chaise-get the

horses 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 most kindly taking their leave of him, as the postilion was leading out the horfes. La Fleur kiffed all their hands round and

round again, and thrice he wiped his eyes, and

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