English Pharisees and French Crocodiles

erely out of laziness; it is so much easier to do so than to study their qua

h wit, Sydney Smith, said that it required a surgi

ish joke, he

. When the English get hold of a good jo

English; but John Bull still goes on affirming that "it requir

nglish and the Scotch, just imagine what feeling

word fo

instance, divides his asparagus into large and small heads. The fine large ones he binds together and sells at high p

ive French. Do but make an observation to a French shopkeeper upon the price of his goods, and he will promptly answer: "I keep a cheaper article, bu

t is a f

s born a

a steamer, sailing from Liverpool to N

yet. I shall be, when

s a fo

brought up by worthy parents, and belon

tiful scenery. The manners and customs of their inhabitants may be utterly different. But the mos

our defects, and I might even add that if we did study to hide them, instead of boasting of them, we might cu

nkness, such abandon, that it ill becomes our neighbors to find fault with us. Indeed,

him, France is Paris; Paris that supplies him with pleasures for a fortnight, and that he despises when he is satiated. The

me again, he writ

ty sights, I can assure you! I will tell you all about it in private, when we

who has undoubtedly vi

ing to London on pleasure), and profits by his visit to go and see Madame Tussaud's Exhibition. Then he returns home, and excl

land, it is true, bu

f the body. To see is

eign lands, they often ma

places, like the Englishman who returned h

draw conclusi

illustr

is that the French carry their own soap in their trunks when they travel? Not they. They conclude that the French do

of a French hotel: "What, waiter, no soap! Don't you know that soap is indispensa

nchman would have as much repugnance to using hotel soap, as they would to using a toothbrush that they might find on a lodging-house washstand. Some people like second-hand so