26 A MONTH IN THE FORESTS OF FRANCE. 



luggage, to which was attached my name, w^hen out 

 came a friendly hand and we fraternised. Having 

 promised to go to the Hotel Byron, Rue Lafitte, and 

 dine with my American companion on the rail (he 

 also was a captain of a merchantman), I accompanied 

 Ludovic d'Anchald to the French Tattersall's, there 

 to put up my hounds : and great fun we had in our 

 closely packed cab — Mai wood and his helmet being 

 always in antagonism. The driver a good-humoured 

 Frenchman, if I recollect rightly, would fraternise 

 with my two terriers, and he nursed them on the 

 box. In this state we arrived at the Tattersall's, and, 

 after some little demur (which I did not expect), I 

 placed my quadrupeds in a comfortable loose box, 

 with directions to the man in charge ( a civil and 

 attentive groom) to feed them well, on promise of 

 good remuneration, and to have them ready for me 

 at an early hour on the following morning. Ludovic 

 d'Anchald then accompanied me as far as the Hotel 

 Byron, and left me to my dinner and my bed. I deeply 

 regret to say that his brother could not join him in 

 receiving me, for he was seized with an illness which 

 some weeks after terminated fatally. 



" Well, then," I said to myself, " here I am in 

 Paris at the very moment I expected to be ; but alas 

 for economy ! — the passage-money from Southamp- 



