7. CHAP. VII.
Containing an Anecdote.
IT may be thought a preposterous idea,
that it could, for a moment, be supposed
possible, that the pedeseque could
have had the assurance to pass himself for
a Grecian. But I had it from the Marquis
de la Luzerne, that a friend of his, who
was in some public capacity at Moscow;
and was entertained by a principal inhabitant
of the city, was asked by him, to visit
an academy, where the French language
was taught; and at which his son, a young
lad, then was. What was the surprise
of the gentleman, to find a Pady from
Cork, who understood not a single word of
French, or Latin, teaching an unknown
gibberish, which most probably was Irish?
