306 THE SPORTSMAN IN FRANCE. 



cordial reception I experienced from one 

 end of France to the other. 



The true citizen of the world is the man 

 who conforms to the customs and manners 

 of every nation. I became a Frenchman 

 myself in France, not upon this principle 

 alone, but from inclination also ; and if in 

 the course of human events a pittance 

 should be awarded me, to France will I 

 go, and in Brittany will I pitch my tent. 



Guimgamp, L'Orient, and Quimper are 

 marvellously cheap towns, but the latter 

 for choice. Should the distance deter 

 the sportsman who may wish to indulge 

 in a month's ramble, let him try Dieppe 

 for trout-fishing, and Abbeville for snipe 

 and wild fowl-shooting ; he will find very 

 good bird-shooting, also, in the month of 

 September. There is unexceptionable Eng- 

 lish society at Abbeville as well as St. Omer; 

 and some one or two families I could 

 name would make any place a Paradise. 



