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gained, fur one that he thought would fit him, the h)okers-on were somewhat amused 

 at his choice. He made them understand hy his signs that they were going to eat 

 it, when the poor woman screamed out, "Diable! mange pas! mange pas! — venez, 

 venez, ma pauvre b^te ! " 



The crowd by this time was becoming so dense that it was thought advisable to be 

 on the move and off. The doctor became exceedingly merry at Jim's expense, as he 

 had come away without getting a dog for their dog feast, of which they had been for 

 some time speaking. 



BOBASHEELA ARRIVES FROM LONDON. 



On their return from this day's drive they met, to their very great surprise, their 

 old friend Boiasheela, who had left his business and crossed the Channel to see them 

 once more before they should set sail for America. He said he could not keep away 

 from them long at a time while they were in this country, because he loved them so 

 much. They were all delighted to see him, and told him he wasjust in time to attend 

 the dog feast, which they were going to have the next day. The doctor told him of 

 Jim's success in buying a dog, and poor Jim was teased a great deal about his failure. 

 Bohasheela told them all the news about England, and Jim and the doctor had a long 

 catalogue to give him of their visit to the King — of their medals — their visits to the 

 great fountain of chickabobboo and Foundling Hospital, all of which he told him he had 

 got down in his book. All this delighted Bobaskeela, until they very imprudently told 

 him that they liked Paris much better than London, They told him that the people 

 in Paris did not tease them so much about religion ; that there were fewer poor people 

 in the streets; and that as yet thsy had kept all their money, for they had seen no- 

 body poor enough to give it to. Their chidcabobboo was very different, but it was 

 about as good. The guillotine they were very well satisfied with, as they considered 

 it much better to cut men's heads off than to hang them up, like dogs, by a rope around 

 the neck. This, and keeping men in prison because they owe money, they considered 

 were the two most cruel things they heard of amongst the English. 



Bobaskeela replied to them that he was delighted to hear of their success and to 

 learn that they had seen the King, an honor he should himself have been very proud 

 of. He told them that he never had seen the King, but that, while traveling in 

 Kentucky many years ago, he was close upon the heels of the King and so near him 

 that he slept on the same (not bed, biit) floor in a cabin where the King had slept, 

 with his feet to the fire, but a short time before. This was something quite new to 

 the Indians, and, like most of Bobaskeela's stories of the Far West, pleased them ex- 

 ceedingly. 



JIM'S COMMENTS ON FRENCH WOMEN. 



Jim, a matter-of-fact man more than one of fimcy and imagination, rather sided 

 with Bohaaheela, and, turning to his round numbers last added to his book, of "nine 

 thousand illegitimate children born in Paris in the last year," asked his friend if he 

 could read it, to which he replied " Yes." " Well," said Jim, in broad English, " some 

 fish there, I guess, ha? I no like 'em French women — I no like 'em; no good! I no 

 like 'em so many children, no fader! " We all saw by Jim's eye, and by the agitation 

 commencing, that he had some ideas that were coming out, and at the instant he was 

 turning over on to his back and drawing up his knees, and evidently keeping his 

 eyes fixed on some object on the ceiling of the room, not to lose the chain of his 

 thoughts, and he continued (not in English, for he spoke more easily in his own 

 language), "I do not like the French women. I did not like them at first, when I 

 saw them leading so many dogs. I thought then that they had more dogs than 

 children, but I think otherwise now. We believe that those women, who we have 

 seen leading their dogs around with strings, have put their children away to be raised 

 in the great house of the Government, and they get these little dogs to fill their places 

 and to suck their breasts when they are full of milk." 



