_Translator._] XII.
SALT, POSTAGE, AND CUSTOMS.
[This chapter is an amusing dialogue relating principally to English Postal Reform.

Being inapplicable to any condition of things existing in the United States, it is omitted .-- _Translator._] XIII.
THE THREE ALDERMEN.
A DEMONSTRATION IN FOUR TABLEAUX.
_First Tableau._ [The scene is in the hotel of Alderman Pierre.

The window looks out on a fine park; three persons are seated near a good fire.] _Pierre._ Upon my word, a fire is very comfortable when the stomach is satisfied.

It must be agreed that it is a pleasant thing.

But, alas! how many worthy people like the King of Yvetot, "Blow on their fingers for want of wood." Unhappy creatures, Heaven inspires me with a charitable thought.