St. Nicholas, Vol. 15
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Excerpt from St. Nicholas, Vol. 15: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks; Part I, November, 1887, to April, 1888 In the Department or the Meuse, in northwestern France, is the little farming village of Damvillers, a mere handful of cottages dropped in the inside of rolling plains which are dotted with vineyards and ruled off by straight rows of slender poplars. The well in the village square is the morning meeting-place of women who clatter over live stones in their wooden shoes to fill their water pails. Presently you may see the men leaving their cottage doors on their way to work among the vines or in the potato-fields outside the village. Between their fields and their cottages they spend their lives. These peasants do not go away from home. They care most for the prospects of their crops. Their only time of merrymaking is the village fete. They arc interested in what they can see, and understand, and handle. But, strangely enough, among them grew up a peasant, one of themselves, whose eyes were keen enough to see that this out-of-door life was beautiful; that these figures laboring in the fields were endowed with a nobility of their own, and that the orchards and vineyards and grassy pastures of Damvillers were pictures in themselves. I suppose that no other of the peasants ever thought whether their life was beautiful or not. They were obliged to work hard, and when the work was done, they were hungry and tired, and that was all. Now. this young peasant, who was never so hungry or tired as to forget the beauty of the scenes around him. lived exactly like the others. He was born, it is now thirty-seven years since, in a little stone cottage with an odd thatched roof, which stands at the corner of the village square. There are only four rooms in this cottage, and of these rooms the pleasantest was the large kitchen where his father and grandfather used to sit before a great open fire-place in which hung a generous put filled with bubbling for an few, or the "soup of black beans," for which his mother was famous, jules Bastsen, the father, had been a cooper. making casks for the wine from the vineyards, but by and by he saved money enough to buy a vineyard for himself. Grandfather Lepage. too. was of a thrifty disposition, and flora the earnings of his hard work he had saved a little sum of which he made good use. as we shall see. Behind the cottage and the barn was a delightful garden, where the young Jules and his brother Emile used to play among rows of hollyhocks and poppies, and under the shade of some old apple-trees. Many years afterward this playground became famous, as I shall tell you. As the peasant bay Jules grew up. his mornings were no longer spent in play, but he trudged off after his father to work among the vines. Every one worked at Damvillers. and to Jules Bostien saw about him every day the men and women moving up and down the rows of vines, bending over the lulls of potatoes, spreading hay in the fields or resling at noon, and the boys and girls tending the cows in the pastures. There was a sensitive brain behind his eyes, and something there was touched by these things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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