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noon quite tired out. About this Scluibert writes : — 

 "Die gute Ilausfrau has never felt better, or more cheerful, 

 during the whole of this jom-ne^-. She has been more 

 comfortable and enjoyed her meals more at this little 

 hm at Cannes than an^'whcrc else, and the charges were 

 ver-s" moderate and therefore suited us. The little house 

 was one of the tirst in the row hv tlie sea-shore. It is 

 true there were no marble steps leading to the upper 

 storey, which consisted almost entirely of the one room 

 where we dined; but there was a wooden staircase going 

 up from the outside, and it could be mounted just as 

 c[uickh' as a stone one. The balcon\-, where we sat. 

 outside this room, had neither iron nor bronze railings, 

 onl3'' wooden ones, but the prospect from it of the surging 

 sea beneath was just as extensive and lo\el\' as trom a 

 stone one. Young chickens, hatched onh- a few da\-s 

 ajTO, ran about with the old hen in the dining-room and 

 on the balcony, picking up the crumbs of \\hite bread 

 that the housewife strewed for them. After par- 

 taking of an excellent repast and resting ourseKcs. we 

 took up our knitting and plant portfolio and. bidding 

 farewell to our balcon\- with the lo\'eh' view of the sea 

 and to our kindh' reasonable hosts, sallied forth under the 

 shady avenue ot trees close to the surf on the road to 

 Antibes". 



Cannes was indeed ver\' different then to what it 

 is now. It owes the commencement of its present pros- 

 perit'\' however to an accident. In 1S34 when the cholera 

 spread over the whole of northern Europe. Itah" isolated 

 herself hv means of a cordon all along her frontiers. 



