ing faid that, he put on his hat and

walk'd out.

Good God! faid I to myfelf, as he went out and can this man be the hufband of this woman!

Let it not torment the few who know what must have been the grounds of this exclamation, if I explain it to those who do not.

In London a fhop-keeper and a fhop-keeper's wife feem to be one bone and one flefh: in the feveral endowments of mind and body, fometimes the one, fometimes the other has it, fo as in general to be upon a par, and to tally with each other as nearly as a man and wife need to do.

In Paris, there are scarce two orders of beings more different: for the legislative and executive powers of the shop not refting in the hufband, he feldom comes there-in fome dark and difmal room behind, he fits commerceless in his thrum night-cap, the fame rough fon of Nature that Nature left him.

The genius of a people where nothing but the monarchy is falique, having ceded this department, with fundry others, totally to the women -by a continual higgling with cuftomers of all ranks and fizes from morning to night, like fo many rough pebbles fhook along together in a

bag,

bag, by amicable collifions, they have worn down their afperities and fharp angles, and not only become round and finooth, but will receive, fome of them, a polish like a brilliant Monfieur le Marli is little better · than the stone under your foot

-Surely-furely, man! it is not good for thee to fit alone-thou wast made for focial intercourfe and gentle greetings, and this improvement of our natures from it, I appeal to, as my evidence.

-And how does it beat, Monfieur? faid fhe.-With all the benignity, faid I, looking quietly in

her

her eyes, that I expected-She was going to fay fomething civil in return-but the lad came into the fhop with the gloves-A propos, faid I, I want a couple of pair myself.

THE GLOVES.

PARIS.

THE

HE beautiful Griffet rofe when up I faid this, and going behind the counter, reach'd down a parcel and untied it: I advanced to the fide over-against her: they were all too large. The beautiful Griffet measured them one by one across my hand-It would not alter the dimenfions-She begg'd I would try a fingle pair, which feemed to be the leastShe held it open-my hand flipp'd into it at once-It will not do, said I, fhaking

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