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held that booby rujBfian's head under my arm for a 

 week." Nod. " No skipping about then ! A pillory. 

 When I let him go, his own cab -horse would have 

 shied at hiai." Nod. " That lubberly English 

 snob of a captain too." Nod. "He's not like the 

 captain I came over with, the captain of the new ship, 

 the Havre." Nod. " He's a very good fellow, and 

 would have made in to the rescue." Nod. " Well I 

 they've got me here for three days, and I'll amuse 

 myself with looking 'em all up. Beautiful calm night, 

 nice passage for old Nip and Tacks. A thousand 

 devils catch those Havre railway rascals ; but for 

 them to-morrow I should have been happy and com- 

 fortable at Beacon Lo-lod-ge," and then I am sure I 

 fell asleep, for I remember nothing more till daylight 

 again reminded me of my uncomfortable situation. 



On awakening and getting up, I found my room 

 was deficient of several comforts that I had been 

 used to ; and here let me ask my kind friends in 

 France, why it is that they don't inculcate into inn- 

 keepers generally, throughout their splendid country, 

 that it is a gentlemanly habit to be clean, and every 

 morning to perform ablutions. All that is offered to 

 one at a French inn or hotel, is a thing the size of a 

 tea-cup for a basin, and a cream-jug by way of doing 

 duty for a pitcher of water. Is it not the custom of 



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