Peeps At Many Lands: Belgium

euse. As he and his companions were journeying along, they came, when it was growing dark one evening, to a great wood. Being afraid of losing their wa

that, though he was away from home, it would not be safe for them to remain there long. So very early next mor

bout the strangers who had just left, he flew into a terrible rage, and went to look for them. He soon found them f

THE LESSE VA

hese people, noticing that the face of one dead man shone brightly, and feeling sure that

n; but they were afterwards laid to rest in a chapel which was built on purpose to receive them. This chapel stands in a grove of beech-trees, on a meadow surrounded by a hedge, in one corner of which there is a fountain whose water is said to be a cure fo

which they threaten the country people, who roar with laughter at the faces they make. Seven men are dressed up to represent St. Evermaire and his companions. The saint himself wears a tunic of coarse brown cloth, girt about with a leather belt, from which hang

s assisting at the altar; and the moment the Benediction has been said, the whole congregation rushes out

imes. Then the pilgrims go near the chapel, and a short conversation is sung between them and Hacco, they imploring mercy, and he abusing them for trespassing

ong bushes and trees, as if they were playing at hide-and-seek. The spectators laugh and clap their hands, and the village children scream with delight. Hacco fires a pistol at the runaway, but misses, on which

s proceed to kill them. But by this time all the actors are tired and thirsty; so St. Evermaire and his friends rise up, and the wh