The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-27
A FRENCH SUMMER.

The Little E'ScltenenlS OI Li4S. HI
 a Fishing Village.
 To be sure, il was great enterprise for us to take 2 cottage in q French fishing village, We having little French, and to import .,n English cook who had no French It all. Our French speaking friends raised their hands at our daring. You will be frightfully cheated" they assured us. How on earth are you going to do your mar k=ting? Why, you don't even know the value of French money!"
 begin by letting the vendors help themselves to their payments, but that was for a day or two only Our friends underrated our intelligence, but we found the decimal coinage easy of understanding, and were puzzled only when some of the more unsophistica- ted skipped from centimes to sous with 8 startling rapidity.
 Even here there is a season. which begins about the last week in July. We arrived in the third week, and were perturbed to find that q week later prices suddenly jumped up. That
  with English. Apparently the French visitors have no influence on the sea- son, for the chalets were full of French people when we came; but of course Madame knows the full value of what she buys, and it would be quite useless to name an eXtortionate price with her. Indeed, we noticed at first that when Madame came to purchase at the carts at the same time as we were purchasing prices were mentioned in whisper. However, that was before we learned to do without rather than to pay over-much. When We had come to that point we began to be treated with respect. But before we arrived there Zelie, the fishwoman had made tremendous haul out Of us. We had paid her five francs for six small 4sh, the result of stupefaction rather than of anything else. Since then we have ceased to deal with Ze- lia.
 Fish there is in abundance, and fresh out of the sea very often All alive, O." We generally dismiss two or three fish sellers before breakfast. The early hours are a disadvantage. We are on the ground floor, and the hall door, with it's screen of pierced ironwork, is at our bedhead. It is disquieting when cry of "Des moules, madame, sll vous plait," pierces, ones ear at six o'clock in the morning. You may buy seven basinfuls of musseis for threepence, as cur cook did yester- day, but even so. one is not prepared for the marketing at So early an, hour. After bathing you may buy eels on the sands and carry them home, Writh- ing, in whatever happens to be handy. Also, as you sit at meals it is no un- common thing to have crab or lob ster thrust through the. open window, each quite ready to- show fight. After We haev bought them the promenade round the kitchen to the amusement of our cook whom we suspect of a Fren descent. We also buy a fiat, thick, white fish, which is very sweet and delicate, of a variety unknown to us Then there is a glittering silver fish very like a salmon, which .tlley call bar" and for which they charge sal- mon prices. It eats rather like mild CT kind of salmon. Can it be barbel?
 Mademoiselle who sells us our fruit and vegetables comes. out from Bou- lougne market. She has little don key and cart and a stout dog to assist | 'Tanesse" up the hills and down, She has beautiful peaches and melons and plums and tomatoes and all manner of vegetables. As she sits on her cart
 with her handsome dark face, she is the center of most pleasing picture. l We like her the better that ranesse" is well fed and accustomed to sugar, and that the dog turns up his nose at mere bread. Still, she has picked over the peaches for us, giving us the least ma ture, while the French mesdan1es se- lected the ripest and roUndest.' How impossible it is to remonstrate when one has little French! Then there comes a day when. she can speak only in a whisper, and has her throat
 swathed up with bandages. We pre- sent her with some tabloids of clilorate of potash. The next time she comes =