I saw in a china shop at _Paris_, the figure of the King and Queen finely executed, and very like, in china: the King is playing on the harp, and the Queen dropping her work to listen to the harmony. The two figures, about a foot high, were placed in an elegant apartment, and the _toute ensemble_ was the prettiest toy I ever beheld: the price thirty guineas. I shall leave this town in a few days, and take the well-known and well-beaten _route Anglois_ for _Calais_, thro' _Chantilly_, _Amiens_, and _Boulogne_, and then I shall have twice crossed this mighty kingdom. LETTER LIV. CALAIS. I am now returned to the point from whence I sat out, and rather within the revolution of one year; which, upon the whole, though I met with many untoward circumstances, has been the most interesting and entertaining year of my whole life, and will afford me matter of reflection for the little which remains unfinished of that journey we must all take sooner or later, a journey from whence no traveller returns.--And having said so much of myself, I am sure you will be glad to change the subject from man to beast, especially to such a one as I have now to speak of. I told you, when I set out, that I had bought a handsome-looking English horse for seven guineas, but a little touched in his wind; I can now inform you, that when I left this town, he was rather thin, and had a sore back and shoulder; both which, by care and caution; were soon healed, and that he is returned fair and fat, and not a hair out of its place, though he drew two grown persons, two children, (one of thirteen the other ten years old) a very heavy French cabriolet, and all our baggage, nay, almost all my goods, chattels, and worldly property whatever, outward and homeward, except between _Cette_ and _Barcelona_, _going_, and _Lyons_ and this town _returning!_ I will point out to you one of his day's work, by which you will be able to judge of his general power of working: At _Perpignan_, I had, to save him, hired post-horses to the first town in Spain, as I thought it might be too much for him to ascend and descend the _Pyrenees_ in one day; beside sixteen miles to the foot of them, on this side, and three to _Jonquire_ on the other; but after the horses were put to, the post-master required me to take two men to _Boulou_, in order to hold the chaise, and to prevent its overturning in crossing the river near the village. Such a flagrant attempt to impose, determined me to take neither horses nor men; and at seven o'clock I set off with _Callee_ (that is my houyhnhnm's name) and arrived in three hours at _Boulou_, a paltry village, but in a situation fit for the palace of AUGUSTUS!