Amusements are extremely scarce. Last week there was absolutely nothing to do with oneself in the evening except to yawn over @ ludicrous theatrical performance, by a company of four, at the Gasino, and now even this resource is taken from us. There are no boats to be hired, no fishermen loafing picturesquely, and no local industries of any kind save hotel and shop-keeping. There is not even a library. If you want to read, you must supply your own books. The nearest railway station is eight miles away, and when the season is in full swing you cannot got a from Paris delivered in. loss shan four or five days. The place is too small to support either a doctor or a lawyer; 80 that any visitor who happens to be taken ill or experience a desire to make his will might find himself in awkward straits. There are two or three tennis-courts of tion, alli rented by long stay, and therefore unavai the casual stranger. In fact the nothing to do in the place itself, but bathe, which perhaps accounts for the fact that everyone staying here is classed as a " baigneur," and all notices addressed to the public at large are invariably headed "MIN. les baigneurs." We got mails twice a day and possess a postal telegraph office about twelve feet square, run by ® nervous young lady in a pink blouse, who falls into bewildering complications over counting the words in telegrams and requests you to call again when she has more time to spare should you display a desire to take out a money-order.
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