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to be obtained, and not worth the price demanded for them, 

 and easy access by rail and steam has raised the price of 

 rents and provisions to nearly a Parisian standard. A pretty 

 country-house, called the Chateau de Talhouet, a short 

 distance from Quimperle, which during my stay there was 

 rented by an Englishman for six hundred francs, or twenty- 

 four pounds per annum, including a fine garden and grounds, 

 and right of chasse over forest and plains to a large extent, 

 I saw advertised, a few years subsequently, in an English 

 newspaper, to be let for one hundred arid fifty pounds a year; 

 and amongst other inducements to a sportsman, reindeer 

 were said to be plentiful in the woods. No doubt a misprint 

 for roedeer, although I imagine both were equally prob- 

 lematical. Brittany, I have no doubt, is now as well known 

 as Middlesex; indeed, what part of Europe is not? and there 

 is every prospect that the prophecy of Erin's bard will very 

 soon be realized, and that some of us may live to see 



''Some Mrs. Tomkins taking tea 

 And toast upon the wall of China." 





