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kind. Beef of first-rate quality, five sous 

 per pound ; veal, six sous ; mutton, four 

 sous, sometimes five. Poultry remark- 

 ably cheap, and particularly fine : chickens, 

 twenty sous a couple ; full-grown fowls, 

 from thirty-five to forty sous a couple ; 

 capons, a trifle dearer; turkeys, three 

 francs each ; small ones, less. 



The fish is superlatively good and re- 

 markably reasonable: — soles, from three 

 to four sous a pair ; mackerel, from two 

 to three sous each ; turbo ts, thirty sous 

 to three francs, according to the size ; 

 John Dory, a franc, and thirty sous ; red 

 mullet, two, three, and four sous each. 

 Servants' wages vary from three to four, 

 and five pounds a year, according to 

 their acquirements. A single man may 

 live like a prince upon sixty pounds a 

 year at L'Orient, and so he may at 

 Quimper ; but this is on a grand scale : 

 he could live respectably on forty ; and a 



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