CHAPTER IX.
_October 28th._ I see at a meeting of the mayors, the population of Paris is put down at 2,036,000.

This does not include the regular army, or the Marines and Mobiles outside and within the lines.

The consumption of meat, consequently, at the rate of 100 grammes per diem, must amount to between 400,000 and 500,000lbs.

per diem.

Although mutton according to the tariff is cheaper than beef, I rarely see any at the restaurants.
This tells its own tale, and I imagine that in three weeks from now at the very latest fresh meat will have come to an end.
I am reluctantly coming to the conclusion that there is no more fight in the working men than in the bourgeois.