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"Of sirens," said Liénarde

"And all naked," added the young lanced at her and did the sa to see To-day it is a morality made expressly for Mada shepherd songs?" inquired Gisquette

"Fie!" said the stranger, "in a morality? you ood"

"That is a pity," resumed Gisquette "That day, at the Ponceau Fountain, there ild ht and assuerettes"

"That which is suitable for a legate," returned the stranger, with a good deal of dryness, "is not suitable for a princess"

"And beside thereat melodies"

"And for the refreshment of the passers-by," continued Gisquette, "the fountain spouted through three mouths, wine, milk, and hippocrass, of which every one drank ished"

"And a little below the Ponceau, at the Trinity," pursued Liénarde, "there was a passion perfor"

"Hoell I remember that!" exclaimed Gisquette; "God on the cross, and the two thieves on the right and the left" Here the young gossips, groarate, both began to talk at once

"And, further on, at the Painters' Gate, there were other personages, very richly clad"

"And at the fountain of Saint-Innocent, that huntss and hunting-horns"

"And, at the Paris slaughter-houses, stages, representing the fortress of Dieppe!"

"And when the legate passed, you relish all had their throats cut"

"And against the gate of the Châtelet, there were very fine personages!"

"And on the Port au Change, which was all draped above!"

"And when the legate passed, they let fly on the bridge more than two hundred sorts of birds; wasn't it beautiful, Liénarde?"

"It will be better to-day," finally resumed their interlocutor, who seemed to listen to them with impatience

"Do you promise us that this mystery will be fine?" said Gisquette

"Without doubt," he replied; then he added, with a certain emphasis,--"I airls, quite taken aback

"Truly!" replied the poet, bridling a little; "that is, to say, there are two of us; Jehan Marchand, who has sawed the planks and erected the framework of the theatre and the ork; and I, who have oire"