. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. additional servant to drive the donkey. He wore a brownish 1 It is believed that Corre is the site of the Roman town of Didattium. This isusually placed high on the river Arar (Saone), and the great quantity of Romanremains found at Corre have led to the conclusion that it is on the very site of theancient town. This is the more probable that towns have often been placed exactlyat the confluence of streams. E 2 52 The Saone. jacket, nearly in rags, old blue cotton trousers worn very thin,and a cheap straw hat w
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. additional servant to drive the donkey. He wore a brownish 1 It is believed that Corre is the site of the Roman town of Didattium. This isusually placed high on the river Arar (Saone), and the great quantity of Romanremains found at Corre have led to the conclusion that it is on the very site of theancient town. This is the more probable that towns have often been placed exactlyat the confluence of streams. E 2 52 The Saone. jacket, nearly in rags, old blue cotton trousers worn very thin,and a cheap straw hat with the broad brim turned up on oneside only, in the manner adopted this summer by the mostfashionable young ladies. The Pilot was very kind to him,and asked him some questions in a very gentle tone of , too, questioned him, and found that, if his account wastrue, he was the orphan son of a quarryman who had beenkilled in an accident, that his mother was a very poor hard-working woman, and that he himself had been in a place at fjb. _i#J»> Ur >< .-,;.. -- *jk \. Franki and Zouloii. an inn, but that he had left his situation, and was now seekinganother. He offered his services for his food and five francsa month. The lad had a very honest face, an open countenancewonderfully Scotch in character, such as you meet with aboutthe Clyde, and a straightforward manner that pleased me, soI said that if his story were confirmed he should have a berthon the Boussemroum. We first went to the inn where hehad been servant, and the people said he was perfectly trust- A Summer Voyage. 53 worthy, but had been somewhat disobedient at times. Thisdisobedience turned out to be nothing graver than failure todo everything when he was over-worked, and sleepiness atthree or four oclock in the morning. The lads mother livedat Jonvelle, so I sent him there to ask for her permission (hebeing a minor) and for a good-conduct certificate from the
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