e -- M.
Prudhomme to his sons -- The men who do not spout -- The French
shopkeeper and bourgeois -- A story of his greed -- He reveals
the whereabouts of the cable laid on the bed of the Seine --
Obscure heroes -- Would-be Ravaillacs and Balthazar Gerards --
Inventors of schemes for the instant annihilation of all the
Germans -- A musical mitrailleuse -- An exhibition and lecture at
the Alcazar -- The last train -- Trains converted into dwellings
for the suburban poor -- Interior of a railway station -- The spy
mania -- Where the Parisians ought to have looked for spies -- I
am arrested as a spy -- A chat with the officer in charge -- A
terrible-looking knife 414

CHAPTER XXIII.

The siege -- The food-supply of Paris -- How and what the
Parisians eat and drink -- Bread, meat, and wine -- Alcoholism --
The waste among the London poor -- The French take a lesson from
the alien -- The Irish at La Villette -- A whisper of the horses
being doomed -- M. Gagne -- The various attempts to introduce
horseflesh -- The journals deliver their opinions -- The supply
of horseflesh as it stood in '70 -- The Academie des Sciences --
Gelatine -- Kitchen gardens on the balcony -- M. Lockroy's
experiment -- M. Pierre Joigneux and the Englishman -- If
cabbages, why not mushrooms? -- There is still a kitchen garden
left -- Cream cheese from the moon, to be fetched by Gambetta --
His departure in a balloon -- Nadar and Napoleon III. --
Carrier-pigeons -- An aerial telegraph -- Offers to cross the
Prussian lines -- The theatres -- A performance at the Cirque
National -- "Le Roi s'amuse," at the Theatre de Montmartre -- A
dejeuner at Durand's -- Weber and Beethoven -- Long winter nights
without fuel or gas -- The price of provisions -- The Parisian's
good-humour -- His wit -- The greed of the shopkeeper -- Culinary
literature -- More's "Utopia" -- An ex-lieutenant of the Foreign
Legion -- He gives us a breakfast -- He delivers a lecture on
food -- Joseph, his servant -- Milk -- The slender resources of
the poor -- I interview an employe of the State Pawnshop --
Statistics -- Hidden provisions -- Bread -- Prices of provisions
-- New Year's Day, and New Year's dinners -- The bombardment --
No more bread -- The end of the siege