CUR SENTIMENTAL GARDEN 



The parties to this lentil transaction, which took place at 

 the end of the long table farthest from the eyes of the 

 presiding usher, had to bid for turns. . . . Where are you 

 this day, you the only two whilom reprobate amateurs of 

 chops on fast days whose names I can yet recall ? YOU, 

 Victor de Mussy, with the notable store of infantile 

 catches and conundrums ? And you, Guilleaume Moreau, 

 of more plebeian stamp, who used to look up words for 

 me in the dictionary a task I truly loathed at the rate of 

 three words for one bee-deplume 1 If you are still in the 

 land of the living, I would take a fair bet that it never 

 occurs to you now to order, of your own accord, a dish 

 of lentils! 



Another persistent " nostril memory/ 7 as I have said, is 

 that of the orange. It is a curious one. Of a certainty I 

 must have eaten of the golden apple many a time before 

 that notable night when I was first taken to a theatre. 

 And yet it is invariably that delirious occasion which is 

 recalled, for however fleeting a moment, 

 when the bursting of the essential oil cells 

 of an orange peel sends forth its fragrance. 

 The drama was " Bos- de-Cuir " an 

 adaptation of Fenimore Cooper's Red 

 Indian tale "Leather Stocking/' When 

 I say that the part of " Leather Stocking " 

 was taken by Frederic Lemaitre per- 

 sonified genius of the old Romantic 

 Melodrama ! that the playhouse was 

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