ile.

Both are as fond of holidays as any school-master alive.

* * * * *

French boys are more united among themselves, because their life would
be intolerable if close friendship did not spring up between them, and
help them to endure a secluded time of hardship and privations.

English boys are prouder, because they are freer. Their pride is born
of liberty itself.

The former work more, the latter play more.

But comparisons are odious, especially when made between characters
studied under such different circumstances.

* * * * *

What I can affirm is that a Frenchman need not fear that English boys
(such as I have known at any rate) will take advantage of his
shortcomings as regards his pronunciation of the English language to
make his life uncomfortable. I have always found English boys
charitable and generous.

A Frenchman will experience no difficulty in getting on with English
schoolboys if his character wins their respect, and his kindness their
affection; if he sympathizes with them in their difficulties; if he
deals with them firmly, but always in a spirit of fair play, truth, and
justice; if he is

"To their faults a little blind,
And to their virtues very kind."

THE END.

_Appendix._

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a joke."--(MARK TWAIN.)

PAGE.

7. _Appartement de garcon_, "bachelor's quarters," not "waiter's
apartment."

12. _Fors l'honneur_, "except honor" (a phrase used by Francis I.
of France, when he announced his defeat at Pavia to his mother).

13. _Gare du Nord_, "Great Northern Railway Terminus," in Paris
(celebrated for its Cloak Room, where, on his arrival from England,
John Bull deposits his baggage of superfluous virtue).

16. _Tres bien, Monsieur_, "Very well, sir." (I owe to the reader
many apologies for translating such an _idiomatic_ phrase as
this.)

19. _Qui frise ses cheveux et la cinquantaine_, literally, "Who
curls her hair and fifty summers." (The word _friser_ means both
"to curl" and "to border on." I hope the reader will see the joke.)

21. _Recherche_, "refined."

22. _Planche_, "a plank."

33. _Allons me voila sauve_, "Now I am saved."

41. _Migraine_, "Sick headache," an indisposition to which French
ladies are subject, when they are reading a novel and do not wish to be
disturbed by callers.

48. _Elle se retira...._ "She retired to