IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



York, who and whose sister were milliners, living 

 and boarding at the house of a Madame L'Epine, 

 a Yankee woman, who had married a Frenchman, 

 He had told us forty times over, that he was to 

 be married upon his arrival^ that every thing was 

 prepared for the nuptials ; he showed my wife 

 trinkets and dresses that he was taking out for 

 the occasion ; he had, besides, in most elegant and 

 curious wrought cages, every species of singing 

 bird known in Europe, not excepting the fau^ 

 vette, which we have not in England, and the 

 nightingale, so very difficult to keep in a tame 

 state. He had all, of full age and plumage, ex- 

 cept the bullfinch ; and not to be deficient even 

 here, he had a nest of young bullfinches, half 

 fledged. He had not excepted even the sparrow, 

 on account, I suppose, not so much for its 

 delightful song, as for its being poetically 

 deemed emblematical of ardour in the affairs of 

 love. He showed us, or at least showed my 

 wife, letters from his intended, expressive of senti- 

 ments at which scarcely any reader will be at 

 a loss pretty accurately to guess. When we 

 came to feast upon the samp, we had Miss Hicks 

 served up to us again, piping hot, and J, really 

 out of compassion for Lachaine, looking him very 

 seriously in the face, said, " But, you don't think 

 that she will wait for you, do you ? " He was a very 

 good-humoured man j he was a furrier, who got 



