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*' By Gar, sare, I am pick-pocketed !" to which 

 the other responded by thrusting his ugly phiz 

 close to Mossu's, with only the monosyllable — 

 Ha-i-gh ! which sent our friend to the right-abouts 

 in double quick time. 



On another occasion our old French Tutor must 

 needs pay a visit to his own country, after an 

 absence of more than twenty years, by which time 

 he flattered himself he had become completely 

 Anglicised, both in speech and appearance — a 

 most extraordinary delusion on his part. He had 

 left his native land on the outbreak of the revolu- 

 tion, and had never ventured to set his foot there 

 again until after the battle of Waterloo, and re- 

 storation of the Bourbons. Even then, doubting 

 the reception he might meet with after so long an 

 absence, he resolved to pass himself off as a verit- 

 able John Bull ; with what chance of success will 

 appear hereafter. 



Above all the characters in the world, he thought 

 it would suit him best to assume that of an En- 

 glish Eox-hunter, and therefore decked himself out 

 in a suit of the following description : — A low* 

 crowned hat with broad brim, large red cravat, 

 buff waistcoat, short-tailed, cut-away green coat, 

 with large sporting buttons ; short inexpressibles 

 of white corduroy, and a pair of mahogany-topped 



