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Our next quotations are two comico-serio Ballads:--


FRENCH AND ENGLISH.

"Good Heaven! why even the little children in France speak
French!" ADDISON.


I.

Never go to France
Unless you know the lingo,
If you do, like me,
You will repent by jingo,
Staring like a fool
And silent as a mummy,
There I stood alone,
A nation with a dummy.

II.

Chaises stand for chairs,
They christen letters _Billies,_
They call their mothers _mares,_