The iron hand of oppression is extended to all animals
within the French dominions, even to the beasts of the field and
the fowls of the air; kunessin oionoisi te pasi."--"Egad!" cried
the painter, "that is a truth not to be controverted: for my own
part, I am none of your tit-bits, one would think; but yet there
is a freshness in the English complexion, a ginseekye, I think
you call it, so inviting to a hungry Frenchman, that I have caught
several in the very act of viewing me with an eye of extreme appetite,
as I passed; and as for their curs, or rather their wolves, whenever
I set eyes on one of 'em, Ah! your humble servant, Mr. son of a
b--, I am upon my guard in an instant. The doctor can testify that
their very horses, or more properly their live carrion, that drew
our chaise, used to reach back their long necks and smell at us,
as a couple of delicious morsels."
This sally of Mr. Pallet, which was received with a general laugh
of approbation, would in all probability, have stifled the dispute
in embryo, had not Mr. Jolter, with a self-applauding simper,
ironically complimented the strangers on their talking like true
Englishmen.
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