Reminiscences of Michael Kelly

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At Montreuil, we went to the hotel kept by the two Brothers with enormous Cocked Hats...I would advise those who are fond of good-living, and particularly of woodcock-pies, to dine at Montreuil, the younger Cocked Hat is esteemed a perfect cordon bleu in cookery. We slept at Abbeville, at the Hotel de l'Europe, an excellent house. We took luncheon at Beauvais, where it was market-day; and the street, in which our inn was situated, was crowded with market-people, listening to a French ballad-singer, roaring away on the steps of the coffee-house, opposite to our
inn. I was in high spirits, and determined to rival the said Stentorian ballad-singer; so I mounted the steps, and sang a strophe of a French song. The crowd gave me great applause, and loud cheering; so much indeed, that the mistress of the coffee-house declared, that if I would remain at Beauvais, and sing to the frequenters of her coffee-room, she would board and lodge me, free
of expense.

At Montreuil, we went to the hotel kept by the two Brothers with enormous Cocked Hats...I would advise those who are fond of good-living, and particularly of woodcock-pies, to dine at Montreuil, the younger Cocked Hat is esteemed a perfect cordon bleu in cookery. We slept at Abbeville, at the Hotel de l'Europe, an excellent house. We took luncheon at Beauvais, where it was market-day; and the street, in which our inn was situated, was crowded with market-people, listening to a French ballad-singer, roaring away on the steps of the coffee-house, opposite to our inn. I was in high spirits, and determined to rival the said Stentorian ballad-singer; so I mounted the steps, and sang a strophe of a French song. The crowd gave me great applause, and loud cheering; so much indeed, that the mistress of the coffee-house declared, that if I would remain at Beauvais, and sing to the frequenters of her coffee-room, she would board and lodge me, free
of expense.

excerpt from 'Reminiscences of Michael Kelly' pp. 289-290 (165 words)

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