. The Waldorf family ; or, Grandfather's lagends . TO) EtlDF OR, THE STONES OF YING beyond Hennebon, near thesea-coast, is a poor little village,called Plouhinic, surrounded bysandy plains, diversified by a fewscanty forests of fir-trees, and pro-ducing neither grass enough tofeed an ox, nor gram enough to fattena pig. But if the people have but littlecorn and few cattle, they can comfortthemselves with the idea, that whenthey grow rich enough to build a city, therewill be no lack of stone for their country around is literally strewed with those 199 singular stones, whi
. The Waldorf family ; or, Grandfather's lagends . TO) EtlDF OR, THE STONES OF YING beyond Hennebon, near thesea-coast, is a poor little village,called Plouhinic, surrounded bysandy plains, diversified by a fewscanty forests of fir-trees, and pro-ducing neither grass enough tofeed an ox, nor gram enough to fattena pig. But if the people have but littlecorn and few cattle, they can comfortthemselves with the idea, that whenthey grow rich enough to build a city, therewill be no lack of stone for their country around is literally strewed with those 199 singular stones, which scholars know to be the re-mains of Druidical temples, but which the peas-ants suppose to be magnificent cities built by thekorigans or fairies, who have the cunning to givethem the appearance of mere stones to the eyes ofmortal men. Not many years since, remnants of Druidicalrites might be found in the simple sports of thecountry. The festival of the first day of June wasone of these. On that day, the young people wereaccustomed to assemble on the great plain; thegirls wearing flax
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