aDvENTURE OF GREEN PEAS.
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The following anecdotes contain some
singular and truly comic events, as they
really happened at Paris, without any alter
alton or addition of circumstances.


In the spring of the year young gentle
man of great fortune, being deslrous OF pre-
scnting something very rare to his MISTRESS
enou,ed in the suburbs of Paris ior Green
peas. and with great difficulty. procured
~ half pint bottles; for each OF winch he
Maid six. Louis d'ors; a most extravagant
1pfice; but 4 was the only valuable present
he could think of, which the delicacy OF his
mistress would not make her retuse-foi
the lady was of naughty disposition, and
would not have accepted any thing which
SS2ight subject her to the imputati9f OF sci
6Ahness.


II is not certain if the Chevalier gave or
sders that she should be informed OF the price,
or whether the season of the year, antthe
knowledge of their rarity made. her guess
II. however. as she was more OF the coquettc
than the epicure, she could not help telling
the messenger, that the gentleman who
bought them, apparently had more money
than wit.


Her mother who was naturally avarlciouss,
finding her of this opinion, proposed to sell
tbe meas: and after some altercation she
got the better of her delicacy, and made her
Consent to send them to market, where none
had appeared, nor indeed was such rarity
expected. The old lady luckily was ac"
ouainted with an old woman, whose business
it was to give intelligence to the stewards