202 SPORTING IN BOTH HEMISPHERES. 



ivas then in this part of Brittany, I shall quote the market 

 prices of most articles of consumption. Meat of all kinds, 

 and some very good, four sous, or twopence per pound ; fowls 

 one franc the pair; hares one franc each; partridges and 

 woodcocks one franc a couple. Vegetables, excellent and of 

 it 11 kinds, ridiculously cheap. Fish of all kinds, salt-water 

 and fresh, sufficient to feed six persons, could be obtained 

 any morning in the market for one franc. Fruit excellent, 

 in abundance. Capital cider ten francs per hogshead, 

 and excellent Bordeaux wine for two hundred francs (or eight 

 pounds) ; good Cognac brandy for two francs the litre, or 

 about eighteenpence the quart. I have often heard of, and 

 talked about economy and economizing, and the different places 

 where tourists and others have gone in search of this ignis 

 fatuus; but this was certainly the only spot where I ever 

 saw these visions thoroughly realized, and where it was 

 impossible, however expensive a person might have been in 

 his ideas, or reckless in his habits, to have committed any 

 great extravagance. Rent and servants' wages were pro- 

 portionately cheap, and little or no temptation to spending 

 money in hospitality offered itself to the occasional resident, 

 as the Breton aristocracy excessively poor and extremely 

 proud shut themselves up in their houses and old chateaux, 

 encased in a triple armour of pride, prejudice, and bigotry, 

 from which they rarely or ever emerged to perform an act of 

 kindness or hospitality towards a heretic stranger, although 

 glad enough to profit by him as a purchaser of their produce 

 or renter of their domains. 



Quimperle is situated on the conflux of two rivers, one 

 tidal, and about three leagues from the sea, and is distant 

 twenty miles from Quimper, the prefecture of the depart- 

 ment. The larger or tidal river runs through the greater 

 part of this distance, and empties itself into the sea a few 

 leagues below the former town. It is a noble trout and 



