74 THE DAILY LIFE OF OUR FAEM. 



may then readily get up with the owner of the disabled 

 raiment, because you will find he cannot run fast hold- 

 ing up his things, and he is averse, as much to meeting 

 the briars sans culottes, as on the other hand he is too 

 much attached to his vestments to leave them bekind : 

 lead him off to a safe place, with or without admonition 

 by the way as your taste and judgment may direct, and 

 return with help to release and secure the other pair. 



Well, our young French scholar has been trying it 

 on again. All conversation in English during meals 

 being prohibited to the boy, under a fine, there was 

 distress one day, on the appearance of a novel pudding, 

 upon which cook had tried her 'prentice hand, and 

 upon the ingredients of which of course they must 

 needs speculate. " Du fromage" remarks one ; " Ft 

 du beurre" interjects another; " JEt du sucre — et du 

 lait" adds quickly a third; " Avec toute suite" with 

 philosophic gravity chimes in our juvenile : which 

 phrase, upon his being called upon to explain, he inter- 

 preted to mean " with preserves." Having that morn- 

 ing heard " tout de suite " in the schoolroom, from 

 native predilection h§ had straightway translated it to 

 mean " all sorts of sweets ; " and being hard up for the 

 appropriate rendering of jam, he gave his generic idea 

 of it in what he conceived to be unimpeachable Parisian. 

 A fair equivalent for which I remember a friend of 

 mine at Oxford, who was fonder of his hounds at home 

 than the pursuit of classic lore in the University, in- 

 venting, when hard up in the school for the Latin of 

 pan. "In re aliqud," he bravely wrote, with more 

 self-congratulation than clearness of meaning. 



But to return from literature to the purely agricul- 

 tural. I am determined to breed no more horses — at 



