Cats have risen in the market--a good fat one now costs twenty francs.

Those that remain are exceedingly wild.

This morning I had a salmis of rats--it was excellent--something between frog and rabbit.

I breakfasted with the correspondents of two of your contemporaries.

One of them, after a certain amount of hesitation, allowed me to help him to a leg of a rat; after eating it he was as anxious as a terrier for more.