2l8 THE BEE, OR Feb. 9, 



Anecdote of Mr. de Sallo, the fir jl Inventor of Periodi- 

 cal Performances. 

 In the year IQ62, when Paris was affli£ted with a long 

 and fevere famine, M. de Sallo, returning from a fum- 

 mer's evening walk, with only a little foot-boy, was 

 accoflcd by a man, who prefented his piftol, and in a 

 manner far from the refolutenefs of a hardened robber, 

 aJked him for his money. M. de Sallo obferving that 

 he came to the wrong man, and that he could get lit- 

 tle from him, added, " I have only three piftoles about 

 me, v^'hich are not worth a fcufflle; fo, much good may 

 you do with them ; but, let ir.e tell you, you are in a 

 bad way." 



The man took them, and, without afking him for 

 more, walked off" with an air of dejedtion and terror. 



The fellow was no fooner gone, than M. de Sallo 

 ordered the boy to follow him, to fee where he went, 

 and to give him an account of every thing. The lad 

 obeyed ; followed him through feveral obfcure ftreets, 

 and at length faw him enter a baker's^ Ihop, where he 

 obferved him change one of the piftoles, and buy a 

 large brown loaf. With this purchafe, he went a few 

 doors farther, and entering an alley, alcended a pair of 

 flairs. The boy crept up after liim to the fourth ftory, 

 where he faw him go into a room, that had no light 

 but that it received from the moon ; and peeping through 

 a crevice, he perceived him throw it on the floor, and 

 burfl into tears, faying, " There, eat your fill ; that's 

 the deareft loaf I ever bought ; I ha-^e robbed a gentle- 

 man of three piftoles ; let us hulband them well, and 

 let me have no more tev^^ings ; for loon or late thefe 

 doings muft bring me to the gallows ; and all to fatisfy 

 your clamours." His lamentations were anfwered by 

 thofe of the whole family ; and his wife having at 

 length calmed the agony of his mind, took up the loaf. 



