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Letters from France; containing observations made in that country during a journey from Calais to the south, as far as Limoges; then back to Paris; ... from Paris through the eastern parts of - Brossura
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ... June 26th. The haymaking which has for some time been put off in the hone that fine weather enough for it would ultimately come, is now begun, but under no very auspicious time, if we look to the past. All people, however, are looking with some confidence to the new moon which they think will bring about a change of weather. This moon, too, is looked upon as decisive of the husbandman's fate. If a wet one, a short harvest is inevitable, and if a dry one, an abundant harvest is safely calculated upon. The wheat and rye crops though standing generallyverythin upon the ground, are very much lodged, but the people say that all will be right provided they now have warm and dry weather.--The day cloudy but warm. Thermometer 66. I have now lived here very nearly two months, and en manage too, so that I am qualified to give you some account of the expenses of house-keeping. My expenses are sueh as will almost make you laugh. I looked at some very excellent rooms that were to be let in he town; but this I did before I thought I should succeed in finding any lodging out of it. They were too large and too many for me. Three large rooms and two kitchens; kitchen and a servant's room; and for these, unfurnished, I was asked 300 francs the year. Mine, you know, cost me 12 francs the month fur nished. The old woman who cooks for me, does it for 12 francs the month, and she goes to the market and buys whatever I tell her I should like to have. She is in the genuine sense of the words a "plain Cook," for give her a potatoe to cook in any other but her own old way (passe au beurre) and she spoils it to a certainty; so I soon found that my best way was to live upon the plainest cookery and to know as little as possible about it. Of bread there are three...
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