194 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



*' yonr apples, faid I to her ? — All my apples ? re- 

 ** plied fhe, and at the fame time began to reckon 

 "' with herfelf. — Threepence, Sir, faid (he. — I take 

 '' them at that price, returned I, on condition you 

 ** will go and diftribute them among thefe little 

 ** Savoyards, whom you fee there below : this was 

 •*' inftantly executed. The children were quite 

 ** tranfported with delight at this unexpeded re- 

 '' gale, as was likevvife the little merchant at 

 *' bringing her wares to fo good a market. I ïhould 

 ** have conferred much lefs pleafure on them had 

 *' I given them the money. Every one was fatis- 

 *' fied, and no one humbled." The great art of 

 doing good confifts in doing it judicioufly. Re- 

 ligion inftruds us in this important fecret, in re- 

 commending to us to do to others what we widi 

 ihould be done to us. 



I fometimes betake myfelf to the great road, 

 like the ancient Patriarchs, to do the honours of 

 the City to fhrangers who may happen to arrive^ 

 I recoiled: the time when I myfelf was a ftranger 

 in flrange lands, and the kind reception I met with 

 when far from home. I have frequently heard the 

 nobility of Poland and Germany complain of our 

 grandees. They allege, that French travellers of 

 diftinâiion are treated in thefe countries with un- 

 bounded hofpitality and attention ; but that they, 

 on viliting France, in their turn, are almoft en- 

 tirely 



