Faces and Places

een appropriated else

lt Lake City. It lies

iles in circumference

ay of Biscay rolls it

y years ago the town w

by fishermen. It was

n front of it, the Atl

he rear the melancholy

La

d by a strange race,

ilway to-day may catc

the department was li

Sahara, and in the su

and they exist on the

asionally dying for la

of getting along in

ng. When the early set

about his daily dutie

a

ariably rises superior

rac

to the inhabitant of th

lonely dwellers in the

exactly born on stilt

age that his British

e on

ary recommendation of o

e Landes. In addition

d enable him to go abou

dinary pedestrians. Th

f the gift of the seve

daily life of the peop

er his hut, the peasan

off his legs by way o

he shepherds, out all

stretch themselves at

of the low bushes. But

reclining against a

tentedly knitting stock

of sheep anxiously nibb

the most remarkable l

melancholy careworn fl

hat grazes on fat Sus

s-eyed, the sheep of t

of the place and the d

eir case implies the b

ss. To abide among suc

o make any man melanch

d to his stilts, also

e together more or less

rosperous province to-d

is XVI. During the Fir

er of Woods and Forest

and found it to be noth

rom the sea by a mere fr

oses, have been much m

eep with salt water. To

the waste land with f

e might. And it did. To

ntirely covered with d

rd

the district, adding no

on, but creating a new

fir trees there ever f

large revenues. Passi

a Mothe to Arcachon, on

ks as if the woodman ha

, and had come to the c

ut these marks are ind

. It is a very simple

le. In order to get at

ree. Out of the wound

ground at the roots.

arried off to the big r

another is cut above

ly dr

om resin immense sums a

Landes, which a hundre

f nature afflicting com

money-yieldi

he seacoast by the long

e Gironde and the town

of Arcachon. The salt

s cottages, lies with

ordeaux, a toiling, pr

ronne, longed for the

ent bathing at Arcach

ards in smooth and leve

icial effects of the f

c scent they distilled

, almost by magic, A

ttle cluster of fisherm

e street truly, but the

seashore and backed by t

A railway was made, an

poured into the long s

capacity. The rush cam

rry, that the houses h

e comes upon in the Fa

s, and to-day have a t

or two, and four or f

llings are of the propor

of two closets, one c

r, oftener still, both

storey high and a few

ed over the liliputian

a is that you live at

n down to Arcachon fo

s; but all along the sho

serve a double debt to

nes by day,--stand rows

yed in more or less bew

terprising persons of e

addling about in th

scene. For background t

otley groups of bathers

and, beyond, the broa

rricade of sandhills t

of Arc

s, Arcachon lives two l

tle, with house-room at

a gay crowd. It affects

tiously divided into tw

other the summer-town.

t the back of the town

n plots reclaimed

the winter-time, many

the shelter and scent

ong unlovely street--i

of desolation. The s

lids put on, and every

here is a maison or

months, shut up between

Town

months of the flock of

other way. Just as sudd

g-place, it has grown

t year the Arcachon oy

d million oysters, the

n francs. The oysters

he greatest customer i

ifty millions of

your oysters in London?

o has established this

and th

atives'," he said,

properly packed, can l

han sufficient to allo

ade between Bordeaux an

Charente lnferieure,

e salt lake, and acquir

emed and so costly in t

since the time of the D

it is only within th

oped and placed on a fo

to the year 1860 oyste

er of creating a bed.

cultivated, but the le

in the intervals of a l

ce on the margin of th

d attached to a piece o

ater far remote

more closely the rep

hat the eggs after incu

ce of from three to fi

son, practically the wh

hick with oysters' egg

his vast wealth with ot

ed by a casual piece o

the eggs, floating in

till they were develo

riments Dr. Lalanne ada

use everywhere in

s, each containing one

ramework. In June, whe

tiles are dropped into

about, find the crusty

e, and attach themselve

examined, are found t

silver sixpence. The ti

off, a process facilita

instance been coated w

arrying the tende

next placed in iron net

s, whilst the young th

al enemies. At the en

far grown as to be tr

ingly strewn on the broa

teen months, when they a

fit to eat at eighteen

when it is t

achon across the lake

that the men who tend

ing up to their knees.

white canopies. Seen

aid up for the winter

. They are the homes o

p watch and ward thr

an possible visits from

flat sea-fish, known a

gentleman has a coloss

them by the dozen, h

her for the succulent

gar. His action with t

shell with a vigorous

ts. As it is stated b

pose of 100,000 oyster

ng must be pre

ardless of the fact tha

oysters in London, is

evice. Rowing about the

are fringed with small

s that these are to m

but it is in truth de

fish, bearing down on t

the palisade of loosel

sier than for him to ste

ndance. But though he

s, he has not brains en

he might get at his me

ims forlornly round and

hat anguish of heart o

fa

achon belong to the St

eading company, which

quarters at La Teste.

from a sovereign to for

he long street they sel

thus realising what s

e British o