Added to the endless vociferations of the human voice, there is an eternal barking of dogs, elephants snorting, cows lowing, and myriads of pigs grunting.

Then there is the thump, thump of the tam-tam, the whistling of fifes, and the screeching of a horrible instrument resembling a fiddle, which can only be compared with the Belzebub music of Hawai.

If, amongst these discordant sounds, you throw in a cloud of mosquitoes and a hurricane of dust, you will have a tolerable idea of an Indian street." "There may be animation and life enough, Willis, but I should prefer the monotony of Regent-street for all that.

Would you like to air yourself in Paris a bit ?" "Yes, but not just now; the less my countrymen see of France, under present circumstances, the better." "What is England and France always fighting about, Willis ?" "Well, I believe the cause this time to be a shindy the _mounseers_ got up amongst themselves in 1788.

They first cut off the head of their king, and then commenced to cut one another's throats, and England interfered." "That," observed Fritz, "may be the immediate origin of the present war [1812].