You have never seen any
thing so beautiful, so captivating, as the scene.
It seems like
enchantment. All the world is here - young and old, poor and rich,
fashionable and unfashionable. All for their amusement. Let us see
what this group are looking at so earnestly. A number of wooden
ponies are wheeled round and round, and each has a rosy-cheeked boy
upon it. Here is another in which they go in boats; another in
chairs. This amusement costs only two or three sous apiece to the
children. The parents or the nurses stand around enjoying it almost
as much as the children. Let us walk on. See that little fountain
gleaming through the tender green of the young leaves as you see
them in the pretty wood that forms a background to the picture. All
along in the road you observe fine equipages of all sorts standing
in waiting, while the gay world, or the poor invalids whom they
brought to this place of enchantment, are walking about or sitting
in chairs, courting health and amusement. Here is something still
prettier than any thing you have seen - a beautiful little carriage
that can hold four children and a driver, drawn by four white goats,
with black horns and beards.
The French are peculiarly kind to animals. No law is necessary in
France for the protection of animals from the cruelty of their
masters. You meet men and women, very respectably dressed, leading
dogs with the greatest care; and in the fashionable drives, every
tenth carriage (it seemed to me) had a dog lying on the seat, or
standing on his hind legs, looking out of the window.
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