DIFFICULT THINGS TO BE MET WITH ON THE
CONTINENT.
A _table d'hôte_ without a single Smith.
A monument that has not an English name upon it.
A waiter at any of the hotels on the Rhine that does not sell
eau-de-Cologne.
A bit of soap that can be persuaded to lather.
A Frenchman on the field of the Battle of Waterloo.
Two fine young Englishmen dining without champagne.
A Dutchman on the top of the spire of Strasburg Cathedral.
A Commissionaire, or a Conducteur, or a Portier, that has not served in
the Imperial Guard.
A Frenchman speaking any language but his own, an Englishman that looks
happy, a German that looks clean, or a pig that has the slightest
resemblance to a Christian pig.
The precise rule of arithmetic by which hotel bills, particularly in
Switzerland, are made out.
An Irishman, a Welshman, and a Gascon travelling together.
A party of English ladies the payment of whose luggage does not far
exceed their railway-fare.
A looking-glass without a group of Frenchmen before it.
A regular John Bull returning home who is not glad to get back again to
England.