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nominally, than they are with us. But then the habits of the servants, 

 and the cost of what they eat, make their keep and wages together 

 amount to not more than half what they do with us. 



It only remains to tell you of what is dearer here than it is in England. 

 I have tried all I can to find out items belonging to this latter head, and 

 have succeeded in two alone namely, sugar and fuel. You cannot have 

 brown sugar under 8d., and indifferent loaf sugar costs Is. 3d. And as to 

 firing, it is dearer, nominally alone, and in point of fact, does not cost, 

 to a well regulated family, noar so much, in the course of the year, as 

 coals do in our houses. 



So much for the necessaries? of life, in Calais. In my next I shall tell 

 you something of its superfluities that is to say, its amusements, its means 

 of luxurious living, its society, &c. 



A P.AHTTNG SONG. 



WHEN will ye think of me, my friends ? 1 



When will ye think of me ? 

 When the last red light of the sunny day 

 From the rock and the river is passing away ; 

 When the air with a deepening hush is fraught, 

 And the heart grows burdened with tender thought; 



Then let it be ! 



When will ye think of me, kind friends ? 



When will ye think of me ? 

 When the rose of the rich midsummer-time 

 Is filled with the hues of its glorious prime ; 

 When ye gather its bloom, as in bright hours fled, 

 From the walks where my footsteps no more may tread 



Then let it be ! 



When will ye think of me, sweet friends ? 



When will ye think of me ? 

 When the sudden tears overflow your eye 

 At the sound of some olden melody ; 

 When ye hear the voice of a mountain-stream j 

 When ye feel the charm of a poet's dream 



Then let it be J 



Thus let my mem'ry be with you, friends ! 

 Thus ever think of me ! 



Kindly and gently, but as of one 



For whom 'tis well to be fled and gone ; 



As of a bird from a chain unbound ; 



As of a wand'rer whose home is found- 

 So let it be ! 



