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fprung up an iron trap, horizontally level with the table, 

 and through it entered a plate with what you had called 

 for upon it. A fpeaking trumpet fixt in the bar of the 

 landlady, told the waiter below what was to be fent up. 

 The whole had a pretty effect ; and, as long as it was 

 new, drew a great deal of company to the houfe. At 

 prefent the hall is occupied by a tradefman as his 

 warehoufe, and the cellars are turned into what is called 

 a berceau lyrique, i. e. a cellar where people go to 

 drink englifh ale and eat faufages, and have their ears 

 tickled by a tolerably vulgar mufic. This mufic is the 

 lyric part of the entertainment of the cellar. 



The commodities, as well as the prices of each, are 

 alike in all the coffee-houfes of the Palais Royal a 

 Coffee, limonade, orgeat, bavaroife, liqueurs, ice, are 

 to be had in all of them, and of equal qualities. A 

 difh of coffee cofbs fix fous ; a glafs of liqueur, a 

 tumbler of limonade, orgeat, or bavaroife, juft the 

 fame. A glafs of ice, twelve fous. The proprietor of 

 the caffe du Caveau is in very good circumftances, the 

 proprietor of the carle du Foi is very rich. Their waiters 

 are as neatly dreffed and frife, as obliging, ready, and 

 nimble as their brethren at the reftaurateurs. 



Notwithstanding the inceffant bufrle in thefe houfes, . 

 no one is ever afked for his money before hand, as is the 

 practice in public houfes that are greatly frequented in 

 Germany; and which I felt as a very difagreeable piece 

 of incivility which honeft men are obliged to fubmit to 

 on account of fome that are not fo. When you have 

 had what you wanted, if you do not chufe to call, 

 Garyon ! you lay your money befide the cup or glafs 

 and go away. If any one ihould accidentally forget it, 

 |l| is in no danger of being called after, or even when 

 6 ' he 



