"Drouet, while a mere hanger-on of the cafés of the boulevards, was not a criminal.

In our days, for their taste has changedat least in that which touches the massesthe recital of the deeds of the Helals is much liked in the Arab cafés in Algeria and also in Tunis.

In the Champs Elysées he turned to the left, up toward the Bois du Boulogne; turned to the left again, and took one of the smaller paths that lead to one or other of the sequestered and somewhat select cafés on the south side of the Champs Elysées.

There is a very pretty graceful girl who attends here and at the different restaurants and cafés with an assortment of bijouterie and other knick-knacks to sell.

But when half a dozen such talkers are engaged in discussion upon some trivial topic, and each employs the same means to enforce his views upon the rest (this occurs nightly in the cafés at Cahors), the Northerner is inclined to think that they are all mad.

He rises about two p.m., takes his chocolate, saunters about in the Strada di Toledo or in the Largo del Palazzo for an hour or two, then takes a promenade à cheval on the Chiaia; dines between six and seven; goes to the Opera where he remains till eleven or half-past eleven; he then saunters about in the different Cafés for an hour or two; and then repairs to the gaming table at the Ridotto, which he does not quit till broad daylight.

He ain't much of a looker, sirI've seen hundreds like him sitting out in front of the cafés along the boulevards, taking all afternoon to drink a bock.

Others used the bottles of champagne lined up on the shelves of the cafés as a target for their revolvers, paying cash for all that they broke.

I missed very much one thing in Munich, and that is the want of cafés like those in France and Italy, which have so brilliant an appearance.