312 THE SPORTSMAN IN FRANCE. 



morrow with any nation on earth for no 

 better an object than the chance of ob- 

 taining a victory. 



*' Laugh at me if you please for uttering 

 what you may consider a foohsh opinion, 

 but I look upon it as a serious misfortune 

 to them that the two words gloire and 

 victoire rhyme together. They so con- 

 stantly occur in that portion of their 

 poetry which is the most popular, and the 

 best calculated to excite them in a high 

 degree — their vaudeville songs — that the 

 two ideas they express have become iden- 

 tical in their minds ; and he will deserve 

 well of his country who shall discover the 

 means of making glory rhyme to peace. ^* 



THE END. 



T. r. Savill, Printer, 107, St. Martin's Lane. 



