Our innkeeperO the delightful innkeepers of France!on our consulting him as to our project of a walking trip through the Midias Frenchmen usually speak of Provencesaid, for his first aid to the traveller: "Then, of course, you will see our great poet, Mistral."

He was a large, stout man, with a red and cheerful face, who looked exactly like the jovial innkeeper of melodrama.

At present, a lazy innkeeper who did nothing; his bustling wife, who seemed equally at home in the saloon, the kitchen, and even the stable; and a solitary waiter, were the only inmates, except the Herberts, and a travelling party, who had arrived shortly after them, and who, like them, had been driven by stress of weather to seek refuge at a place where otherwise they had not intended to remain.

In reality, there may have been no cause for my fearsI may have wronged the lonely innkeepers by them; but certainly no place or circumstances ever seemed to me more appropriate to a deed of robbery or crime.

And his nice discrimination about noses extends also to shape and colour.from the "Red-nosed innkeeper of Dav'ntry," and the "Malmsy-nosed knave, Bardolph," to him in Henry V., "whose nose was sharp as a pen!" Lear.

The handsome, rosy face of a strapping tavern wench would not have startled him, but he was not gazing upon a bouncing serving maid or the hoydenish daughter of a prosperous innkeeper.

In the second twelvemonth of their acquaintance they reached the point of exchanging reminiscences as to the weather, discussing the agricultural prospects of the county, and remarking on the advantage to rural innkeepers of the fashion of bicycling.

I left my baggage, consisting of two well-filled trunks, in charge of Mr. Ellis, a worthy innkeeper of the town, and when I was ready to continue my way on foot for St. Louis, I was joined in this journey by Messrs. Kemp and Keen, my fellow-voyagers on the water from Louisville.