Outing . Painted for Outing by l RETRIEVED BY TBTO>9 THE L rnm jt\AKsmiu^Ai6, My Hiirgif IHiapFis©^. WE were off betimes, but the mistralwas off before us—a roistering,rollicking, irresponsible windthat exhilarated like wine andcut like a whip. Friends in Marseilles had character-ized our undertaking as foolhardy. AStrange dialect ; a morose and sus-picious peasantry ; queer lodgings andqueerer cookery, were the least of thehardships awaiting us in the remoteand unfrequented corners of the Midi,which we proposed to explore. Accord-ing to these cheerful critics a jou
Outing . Painted for Outing by l RETRIEVED BY TBTO>9 THE L rnm jt\AKsmiu^Ai6, My Hiirgif IHiapFis©^. WE were off betimes, but the mistralwas off before us—a roistering,rollicking, irresponsible windthat exhilarated like wine andcut like a whip. Friends in Marseilles had character-ized our undertaking as foolhardy. AStrange dialect ; a morose and sus-picious peasantry ; queer lodgings andqueerer cookery, were the least of thehardships awaiting us in the remoteand unfrequented corners of the Midi,which we proposed to explore. Accord-ing to these cheerful critics a journey across the desolate Crau or throughthe lonely Alpilles, presented as manydangers as a trip into the mountainfastnesses of Thibet. Fortunately, how-ever, I was a seasoned nomad, and mycompanion was an American youth ofsixteen, whose ungratified cowboy as-pirations greeted with enthusiasm any-thing which promised a spice of ad-venture. So with merry hearts andundismayed, we fared along the whiteroads, glad in the company of the clear-cut Southern landscape. Be
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