“As for me, I like a woman to be pretty.”
“I am more particular about her being well dressed.”
“Yes; neat, clean, and well set off.”
“Looking just new. A pretty girl ought always to appear as if she had just been turned out by a jeweller.”
“To return to my bulls; I saw these two sold at the market at Thouars.”
“The market at Thouars; I know it very well. The Bonneaus of La Rochelle, and the Babas corn merchants at Marans, I don’t know whether you have heard of them attending that market.”
The tourist and the Parisian were conversing with the American of the Bibles.
“Sir,” said the tourist, “I will tell you the tonnage of the civilised world. France 716,000 tons; Germany 1,000,000; the United States, 5,000,000; England, 5,500,000; add the small vessels. Total 12,904,000 tons, carried in 145,000 vessels scattered over the waters of the globe.”
“It is the United States, sir, which have 5,500,000.”