The fields of France / with twenty illustrations in color . SENLIS THF . .uia^ ? ... ^ . the TIIn 1893, Chant!l!v was s^!^^38 boar delights ? -chpt avenues > the traveller, f^n their shoals of sand :Oad3 THE FORESTS OF THE OISE Every May, a beautiful fault frustrates this skilful venery,for, thick as grass, thick and sweet, the lily of the valleysprings in all the brakes and shady places. The scent of thegame will not lie across these miles of blossom. The huntersare in despair, and the deer, still deafened with the wintersyelp of the hounds—the deer, who sets his
The fields of France / with twenty illustrations in color . SENLIS THF . .uia^ ? ... ^ . the TIIn 1893, Chant!l!v was s^!^^38 boar delights ? -chpt avenues > the traveller, f^n their shoals of sand :Oad3 THE FORESTS OF THE OISE Every May, a beautiful fault frustrates this skilful venery,for, thick as grass, thick and sweet, the lily of the valleysprings in all the brakes and shady places. The scent of thegame will not lie across these miles of blossom. The huntersare in despair, and the deer, still deafened with the wintersyelp of the hounds—the deer, who sets his back against thesturdiest oak, ^and butts at the pack with his antlers, whoswims the lakes, and from his island refuge sells his life ashard as he can—the deer, accustomed to be always vanquished,beholds himself at last befriended by an ally more invinciblethan water or forest oak, by the sweet innumerable white lily,innocent as himself, that every May-time sends the huntsmenhome. The lily that saves the deer is the consolation of poorwomen. Every morning during the brief season of itsblossom, they are up before the dawn. Holding their childrenby the hand, they are off to the innermost dells of its forest;and before our
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