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Nipper and Tacks, as well as a fine bloodhound 

 bitch named Malvvood, and four bloodhound whelps 

 by Druid — in all seven; and thus we arrived at 

 Southampton. It being my intention to be useful to 

 such as may hereafter travel, as well as amusing in 

 this account of my visit to the French forests, it 

 behoves me here to state that, the cheapness of my 

 passage from Southampton via Havre to Paris full 

 in view, I put fifteen sovereigns into my pocket, 

 deeming that these would be ample for my journey 

 to Nevers, at which town my kind and hospitable 

 entertainer was to meet me. Somehow or other, 

 wherever I go I have always a multitude of 

 persons of a certain class willing and anxious to do 

 my bidding. If they please me, I am merry, and, as 

 far as my means go (or perhaps a little farther than 

 they ought to go), liberal — that is if shillings, six- 

 pences, and fourpenny-bits can bear that graceful 

 term. If they displease me I am sharp even to kicks 

 and cuiFs ; but (somehow or other, I am obliged to 

 use that term again) kicks, cuffs, and money come 

 and go with great good-humour ; and myself and my 

 numerous adherents never have any quarrels. At the 

 time of the Crusades there was a famous general and 

 popular officer whose nom de guerre was " Walter 

 the Pennyless," and whose following or army was 



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