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 PERE LA CHAISE wine glass every night of Daffy's Elixir, coming without his usual recipe, a bottle was procured from the country apothe- cary, when pouring out a glassful, drinking to our sports on the morrow, and cheerfulness to follow, out of compliment (how polite! except Dashem and myself), the other two took bumpers of his medicine, with wry faces, calling out, Hip! hip! hip! success to fishing, little thinking at the time what would be the result of the toast. As I drank punch but once a year, my brother fisherman and I drank negus; here we were fortunate enough to escape what followed; the two Daffy Elixir gentlemen, instead of accompanying us the next day, were the whole time confined to their beds, through showing their politeness to the proctor, who felt no ill effects fronm what he had been long accustomed to, and was much amused watching our fishing; while the other two, from the effects of the punch, were left to regale themselves with mutton broth. At our return back in the evening, my camarade pêcheur, not contented with the trout he had caught himself, as they lay on the table to exhibit our day's sport, was purloining some of my largest ; this I objected to, and the scramble that ensued caused such a quarrel, that the remainder of the time we were together not one word was exchanged; and what made it the more disagreeable, we lay in a two-bedded room, two orator mums, not a little to the risibility of the others. PERE LA CHAIsE The last time when I was at Paris, meeting with an old acquaintance I had known many years, who, from being a horse dealer, and providing carriages, had made an ample fortune and retired to Paris, where he had long resided. In