A tour through the Pyrenees . Theindividuals making the excursion stop at a spotselected the day before; they unload pates andbottles. If they have brought nothing, they go andknock at the nearest hut for milk ; they are aston-ished at having to pay three sous a glass for it:they find that it strongly resembles goats milk, andthey say to each other, after they have drunken,that the wooden spoon was not over-clean. They 436 BA GNERES AND L UCHON. Book IV look curiously at the dark stable, half underground,where the cows ruminate on beds of heather ; afterwhich, the great fat men seat themselves
A tour through the Pyrenees . Theindividuals making the excursion stop at a spotselected the day before; they unload pates andbottles. If they have brought nothing, they go andknock at the nearest hut for milk ; they are aston-ished at having to pay three sous a glass for it:they find that it strongly resembles goats milk, andthey say to each other, after they have drunken,that the wooden spoon was not over-clean. They 436 BA GNERES AND L UCHON. Book IV look curiously at the dark stable, half underground,where the cows ruminate on beds of heather ; afterwhich, the great fat men seat themselves or liedown. The artist of the family draws out hisalbum and copies a bridge, a mill, and other albumviews. The young girls run and laugh, and letthemselves drop out of breath upon the grass ; theyoung men run after them. This variety, indige-nous in the great cities, in Paris above all, wishes torevive among the Pyrenees the pleasure partiesof Meudon or Montmorency. FOURTH. Fourth kind : dining tourists. At Louvie, a family. from Carcassonne, father, mother, son, daughterand servant, ali^rhted from the interior. For thefirst time in their life they were undertaking a Chap. III. THE PEOPLE. 437 pleasure trip. The father was one of those floridbourgeois, pot-belhed, important, dogmatic, well-clad in fine cloth, carefully preserved, who educatetheir cooks, arrange their house en bonbonniere,and establish themselves in their comfort, like anoyster in its shell. They entered stupefied into adark dining-room, where the half-empty bottlesstrayed among the cooling dishes. The cloth wassoiled, the napkins of a doubtful white. The father,indignant, asked for a cup of tea, and began walk-ing up and down with a tragic air. The rest lookedat each other mournfully and sat down. The dishescame helter-skelter, all of them failures. Our Car-cassonne friends helped themselves, turned themeat over on their plates, looked at it, and did noteat. They ordered tea a second time ; the tea didnot appe
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