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thought it triste I Others gave six days for the Exhibition, 

 London, and the environs ; and on their return said, they 

 never saw the sun, and found no meat but beefsteaks. 

 Another, who during a whole week rode only in an omni- 

 bus, and by way of economy took no drink but vin ordi- 

 naire — in other words, claret, — returned, saying that there 

 was positively nothing to see in London ; and that, as to 

 hotel living, it was absolutely ruinous. One expressed his 

 astonishment to find the English " so well dressed." He 

 had probably imagined them breechless savages. Another, 

 who chiefly looked on the French department, said that 

 England had actually nothing in the Exhibition ; and so 

 on. In fact, all went full of prejudices, and had not 

 enousrh time to do more than shake a little of the dust from 

 them. Ignorant of the English language, and with little of 

 the genuine travelling instinct, they could do nothing more. 

 Britanny is excellent for losing the way in. The roads 

 are hollow and winding, and the country of a similar cha- 

 racter throughout. Furze-covered hills, separated by 

 wooded valleys, are the main features; and it requires 

 some time to know the peculiar marks which distinguish 

 one district from another. Often, in trying to find my way 

 to some place where I had previously found game, have I 

 been much puzzled ; and in following the insensible wind- 

 ings of a valley have debouched on a point far distant. 

 One day, in December, I started with a friend to beat some 

 good woodcock woods, which we had shot through in the 

 preceding year, and lying about five miles away. We shot 

 across the intervening country, seeing little game, and at 

 last arrived at the neighbourhood. " Ah ! " said I, " there 



