We noticed, too, a difference in these river-going people.

Some of them carried baskets, and some of them read the _Petit Journal_, and they all comfortably submitted to the good-natured bullying of the mariner in charge.

There were elderly women in black, with a button or two off their tight bodices, and children with patched shoes carrying an assortment of vegetables, and middle-aged men in slouch hats, smoking tobacco that would have been forbidden by public statute anywhere else.
They all treated us with a respect and consideration which we had not observed in the Avenue de l'Opera, and I noticed the Senator visibly expanding in it.

There was also a man and a little boy, and a dog, all lunching out of the same basket.

Afterward, on being requested to do so, the dog performed tricks--French ones--to the enjoyment and satisfaction of all three.