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Adieu , my friend , for I am away to the other side of Paris , to the Abattoir of Grenelle ! And there I find exactly the same thing on a smaller scale , with the addition of a magnificent Artesian well , and a different sort of conductor , in the person of a neat little woman with neat little eyes , and a neat little voice , who picks her neat little way among the bullocks in a very neat little pair of shoes and stockings . * * * * * Such is the Monument of French Folly which a foreigneering people have erected , in a national hatred and antipathy for common counselling wisdom . That wisdom , assembled in the City of London , having distinctly refused , after a debate of three days long , and by a majority of nearly seven to one , to associate itself with any Metropolitan Cattle Market unless it be held in the midst of the City , it follows that we shall lose the inestimable advantages of common counselling protection , and be thrown , for a market , on our own wretched resources . In all human probability we shall thus come , at last , to erect a monument of folly very like this French monument . If that be done , the consequences are obvious . The leather trade will be ruined , by the introduction of American timber , to be manufactured into shoes for the fallen English ; the Lord Mayor will be required , by the popular voice , to live entirely on frogs ; and both these changes will -LRB- how , is not at present quite clear , but certainly somehow or other -RRB- fall on that unhappy landed interest which is always being killed , yet is always found to be alive -- and kicking .