OSSING THE CHANNEL--RATHER SQUALLY 14

ROBINSON CRUSOE AND FRIDAY 16

PAPA AND THE DEAR BOYS 18

THE DOWAGER AND TALL FOOTMAN 20

ON THE BOULEVARDS 42

A GROUP OF MARBLE "INSULAIRES" 46

BEAUTY AND THE B---- 68

PALAIS DU LOUVRE.--THE ROAD TO THE BOIS 72

MUSEE DU LUXEMBOURG 77

THE INFLEXIBLE "MEESSES ANGLAISES" 105

ENGLISH VISITORS TO THE CLOSERIE DE LILAS--SHOCKING!! 109

SMITH BRINGS HIS ALPENSTOCK 114

JONES ON THE PLACE DE LA CONCORDE 118

FRENCH RECOLLECTION OF MEESS TAKING HER BATH 125

THE BRAVE MEESS AMONG THE BILLOWS HOLDING ON
BY THE TAIL OF HER NEWFOUNDLAND 125

VARIETIES OF THE ENGLISH STOCK.--COMPATRIOTS
MEETING IN THE FRENCH EXHIBITION 126

A PIC-NIC AT ENGHIEN 147

EXCURSIONISTS AND EMIGRANTS 152

BOIS DE BOULOGNE 164

[Illustration: CROSSING THE CHANNEL--A SMOOTH PASSAGE]

THE

COCKAYNES IN PARIS.

CHAPTER I.

MRS. ROWE'S.

The story I have to tell is disjointed. I throw it out as I picked it
up. My duties, the nature of which is neither here nor there, have
borne me to various parts of Europe. I am a man, not with an
establishment--but with two portmanteaus. I have two hats in Paris and
two in London always. I have seen everything in both cities, and like
Paris, on the whole, best. There are many reasons, it seems to me, why
an Englishman who has the tastes of a duke and the means of a half-pay
major, should prefer the banks of the Seine to those of the Thames--even
with the new Embankment. Everybody affects a distinct and deep
knowledge of Paris in these times; and most people do know how to get
the dearest dinner Bignon can supply for their money; and to secure the
apartments which are let by the people of the West whom natu