Our Little French Cousin

They were still more delighted when Pierre, Mr. Carter's fine, black French poodle, jumped up on the seat beside him, lo

have lunch there, and then come back by way of Vernon; that ou

ing, and off they went at a pace

d like a great patchwork quilt, with squares of green, yellow, and brown spread out for miles. There were no divisions by fe

ps me," said Mr. Carter. "It is lik

held in her hand. It seemed like a maze to an outsider, but she drew in first one rope, and then

where they may run loose. So they must be guarded in this manner, and

case each goat's rope was tied to an iron stake which was driven in the ground, so the childr

lumbering wagon, swung between two big wheels, drawn tandem-wise,-that

ped a dark blue sheepskin blanket. On their heads bobbed big tassels of blue and red, or blu

at hung almost to the ground, and an extra high collar with more tassels. All this may not be com

autiful beasts with yokes twisted around their horns instead of around thei

sight of a flock of sheep with their shepherd, which completely blocked up the road. "But I do not

must be left open for the automobile, and they began to drive the sheep toward the other side, pushing them and barking at them; the slow ones they would catch by the wool, give

he work, was a fine-looking fellow, in a long grayish white cloak, striped with colour, which made him look like a shepherd of Bible times. In the fi

down a long, steep hil

chimneys and stovepipes coming up o

you can see the openings to them, often in tiers one above the other, and those chimneys you see come from the house

Jean, "and how can they see in th

they used to many years ago when the French peasant was much worse off than he is now. The working people are now building and owning their o

live in the ground lik

he noble French family in whose possession it has been for hundreds of years. This splendid bui

big church in the distance,

said that this church was built by William the Conqueror to replace one that was destroyed

town, they started for home over a

at highways laid out all over France by the great Napoleon, so that s

t clump of trees? It looks like a fish," suddenly cried Marie, a

ing-machines, and every now and again he sends one up to find out how his experiments are getting on. Well, children, that is a sight for you that I did not antic

reached Vernon, where they stopped at a pretty riverside café to have a

aillard, and so ended a blissful day for our young people, wh

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good times, natural development, and a gentle earnest

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