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ber of women they passed leading dogs in the street, and thus they made some 

 amusement with their list when they got home. They had been absent near an hour, 

 and driving through many of the principal streets of the city, and their list stood 

 thus: 



"Women leading one little dog 1 432 



"Women leading two little dogs 71 



"Women leading three little dogs 5 



Women with big dogs following (no string) 80 



"Women carrying little dogs 20 



"Women with little dogs in carriages 31 



The poor fellows insisted on it that the above was a correct account, and Jim, in 

 his droll way (but I have no doubt quite honestly), said that " it was not a very good 

 day either." 



I was almost disposed to question the correctness of their estimate until I took it 

 into my head to make a similar one, in a walk I was one day taking, from the Place 

 Madeleine, through a part of the Boulevard, Rue St. Honors' and Rue Rivoli, and a 

 turn in the garden of the Tuileries. I saw so many that I lost my reckoning, when 

 I was actually not a vast way from the list they gave me as above, and quite able to 

 believe that their record was near to the truth. While the amusement was going on 

 about the ladies and the little dogs, Daniel, who had already seen many more of the 

 sights of Paris than I had, told the Indians that there was a dog hospital and a dog mar- 

 ket in Paris, both of them curious places and well worth their seeing. This amused 

 the Doctor and Jim very much. The Doctor did not care for the dog marlcet, but the 

 hospital he must see. He thought the hospital must be a very necessary thing, as 

 there were such vast numbers; and he thought it would be a good thing to have a 

 hospital for their mistresses also. Jim thought more of the market, and must see it 

 in a day or two, for it was about the time they should give a feast of thanksgiving, 

 and " a dog feast was always the most acceptable to the Great Spirit." It was thus 

 agreed all around that they should make a visit in a few days to the dog market and 

 the dog hospital. 



Jim got Daniel to enter the above list in his book as a very interesting record, and 

 ordered him to leave a blank space underneath it, in order to record anything else 

 they might learn about dogs while in Paris. 



JIM TAKES GALIGNANI'S MESSENGER. 



Poor Jim! he was at this time deeply lamenting the loss of the pleasure he had just 

 commenced to draw from the Times newspaper, for which he had become a subscriber, 

 and his old and amusing friend Punch, which Daniel had been in the habit of 

 entertaining them with, and which he had been obliged to relinquish on leaving 

 England. His friend Daniel, however, who was sure always to be by him, particu- 

 larly at a late hour in the evenings, relieved him of his trouble by telling him that 

 there was an English paper printed in Paris every day, Galignani's Messenger, which 

 republished nearly all the murders, and rapes, and robberies, &c, from the Times; 

 and also, which would make it doubly interesting, those which were daily occurring 

 in Paris. Jim was now built up again, and as he could already read a few words 

 was the envied of all the party. He was learning with Daniel and Jeffrey a few 

 words in French also, to which the others had not aspired ; he could say quite dis- 

 tinctly " vive le roi ; " he knew that " oon jour" was "good morning," or "how do 

 do?" that "bon" was " good," and u mauvais ,) was "bad," and that "verysick" was 

 " Men malade." He requested Daniel to get Galignani's paper daily for him, for which 

 he and the Doctor had agreed to pay equal shares. He seemed now quite happy in 

 the opinion that his prospects for civilization were again on a proper footing, and 

 the old Doctor, who profited equally by all of Daniel's readings, was delighted to 

 lend his purse to share in the expense. Daniel at this moment pulled the last num- 

 ber of Galignani out of his pocket, the first sight of which pleased them very much, 



