Year: 1870

their hOuSelesS owners all 10 reality
the defense Paris is prepared to make. You meet the
streaml at the Madelaine, and il Ia all but
broken during q two hours drive. A long Normandy
cart drawn by clumsy broad backed farm house steeds,
who neigh and caper at city sights and sounds, until
they remind you OF the In the fable who emuated
the la ap-dogs tricks cart laden with human freight
well with beds and bedding chairs tables faded bits
Of work in Berlin WOOL framed and glazed, bird-cage
or two and pet dog meets you first. An old is
perched at dangerous hight paliase Of blue and
white, little children cling to the dusty shafts, while
men and women walking in melancholy process
sion at It's side Then private omnibus with cornet
on its vanished sides. its windows down. and its blinds
drawn but with old china monsters peeping from
its half-open door, and confused vista Of
orIpou, statuettes, bronzes cabinet pictures, and
ornate time pieces presenting themselves from
within. An open cab, with pyramid OF bonnet
boxes and feminine trunks in the midst Of which gvesal
OF exterior is squated barouche and pair, the
seats OF which dressingcases and gilt cage with
squalling macaw within; market cart, with bedding
and pillows again. two vans, containing between them
the furniture OF IA goodszed house; ramshace monde
script wheels, drawn by mule, and with the hetero-
geneous contents of brokers' shop empted into it, in as
much confusion II they had been shaken from pep
per castor by giant hands, little crowd foot, which
is like funeral that the bearers in blue linen
instead OF black cloth, and that they surround
bright polished mahogany wardrobe instead of cOtin
meet the eye i'm succession II is the flight into Paris
The houses miles round the forhcatons deserted
and their recent occupants hocng 10 within the
walls by the hundred with their chattels and their
families there await the result OF the enemy's ad
vance 1t seems a peculiar mode OF preparing for
SIEGE this accumulation in the threatened city Of useless
months but they feel safer these poor people TO be at
the capital than TO retreat TO the Provinces and the
Government has not hitherto said they may. Down the
main avenue OF the Elysan Fields, past the Arch OF
Triumph the summit Of which there are soldiers
taking observations, and a and movable plat
form mysterously at work. along the roads skrted by
the cottages with double cOachhOuse, by the wicked


little architectural prettnesses in stucco, from whose
gates dainty white pOodes with pink collars are wont to
peep and by the pretentous villas Of detached gentty,
and at the gates OF the famous ois. Nothing but
families moving and sealed houses all the way Let the
reader recall the time when he suffered last from the
horrors OF "a move" and then let him multiply the We
hcles containing his household goods until they cover
three miles ground and he will realize what has taken
place for the last hours at the outskirts Of and the
main roads into Paris 1t only when we are through
the first line OF foricaons that the houses closed
Within this limit the various shops are rather buster than
usual You must eat and drink, however great your
distress and on the sad day when the best and
most beloved among depart this life the cook will
assuredy take her orders for dinner exactly as II the
mOurnful event had not occurred So the eating
and Wneshops are driving roaring trade by OF
the extra trac and the Reads OF small households and
the owners Of deserted together not uncheer
fully over the refreshing glass They talk Of the neness
of the weather. for their job and the heavness Of the
roads Ii is impossible to be dying Tor your country an
day long and the necessity Tor removal and its dis
trcssing inconvenience and loss having been once
% b tRSTs instead nS 4hSfs.Y Of Getting IN on Of


n their 'nS way. The tradespeople near the barriers
are chirpy possible. small fat aneur dscourse5
Some Sn Se or Sat hey are such fools and then holding


stomach at the excellence & Of the Je aks az e
BOsi "There are more thousands OF them than can
there is bit OF ground in the whole place which has
its beasts feeding 1t is drol this, II is drol LOOK
at them thus they come stu the t5n Sases bG w5 nd Rs Re
chairs and all to ask Paris to protect them, my fath


The little man blows away some snuff from his fore.
finger with great contempt and having thus disposed OF
again. the puzzemen and dismay Of his listeners who
half persuaded that they have taken fright TOO soon


earshot OF the people who suspect and denonnce OF
his might take the syo iof that Of bs
is French to the hearts core, ana hating frsS WIN a


We have been indebted block of half hour at the
forti1catons' gate for this conversations The trench
round the works has been deepened, ana the opening In
the walls closed up, all but narrow space which sin
gle line Of vehicles pass AT our arrival Is he turn


OF those coming in and our carriage stopped amid


mass others. There enormous wagOn-oads OF hay


bound for the outlying forts soldiers horseback gen
darmes commissariat wagons, and held-pece or Two
waiting for us At "a gwen signal from a sergeant
de ville the tide Of arrival is turned, and we who
waiting are permitted egress. Ihere are looks
Of curious scrutiny pass the fortlneation


walls, and the odd-lookng men whose cab has
kept close by, since We made for the Bos draw
closer But neither put questions nor make parade


observation. and when our drive brings us to the iron


gates Of the noble ncosre, we ask lndlerent OF the


two guard there IL il is still allowed 10 drive In


the Bo and at once admitted. The woods and gar
dens the racecOurse at LOngchamps and the meadows


around IT, present extraordinary spectacle People


thick wood with thousands upon thousands OF cattle ana


you see prlmeNai forest Inc uonestlc cna'ctr oI


bulls and cows departs tie instant they put by the


thousand amid foliage and when they are


trees The effect srikngy novel that the spectator


asks himself what there i'm this unfamiliar conjunction


of familiar objects to make IT unlike ANYTHING else he


ever saw The answer Is simple. III - not animated


and flowers, and roll massiyey parterre and shrub,


reckless OF consequences and IA asking each what the


deuce this unwOnted Liberty can mean IWenty-seVen


thousand head OF cattle make pretty show IN wood,


the bOughs and eafy shadows OF which have an oddly


magnifJing effect. Turn which way We would there


were gigantic animals tearing at the trees or browsing


peacefully amid their Trunks and the effect was exactly


less picturesque, but quite as extraordinary There


like field of waving corn from the OF moving yell


low wool with which il was covered, and now and again.


meadows fun OF cattle, it exactly IL boldly ymOt


tied map Of red and white marble had been enclosed The


and they were 80 closely packed that 1t seemed
If YOU could walk upon their backs as on a level


beauty the fashion, and the fyolty OF the world have
i3regathered there many eart Bda,s among t6a


feet the lake OF the cascade, and other soldiers ng
merely that the customary nirtations costumes and


equipages wanting There was complete solitude,
save for the things described Our CARNAGE was
the only be seen, and the people at the
cafe by the cascade resented outrage
request for breakfast. waiter stood at the
door napkin in hand the little tables had


glass and snowy linen, and there were attendants behind
the counter. But 1t all phantomke and ghOstly.
They were bewdered stunned appalled, at the prospect
before them and the sights their door, and the waiter
the addressed him. On the patch of
green in front OF the cafe from which ClOthde and
Therese have Haunted and ogled for many season,
poor sheep lay dying the tramp OF common soldiers


sounded In the favoTts walks OF the Arcadan eNquses
of the Second Empire, and the line OF FORTH,
cations Just visible in the distance, instead
OF continuing an ornamental adjunct TO the land
scape, has had its archways turned into store
houses for grain. Old Mr.. Willett when the MaypOe


WIS sAcked and he left hound and dumb fnrmlshes the