The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-06-05

I blooms on IL the same shape as a
catalpa bloom, the other one has
leaves something like a chestnut
free and small clusters of purple
blossoms. The peasants yards are
full of flowers now and / wish so
much that you could see them.
They all have landscape garden
er's eye for symetrical beds and
borders with little walks in between.
There are great many OF che flow
ers that | do not know the names
of but they are all pretty and the
pansies are beautiful and there are
so many of them. The grain fields
are beautiful. | passed a field of
Barley last Sunday that was head
ing and yesterday evening / noticed
a field planted in grasses for hay
that will soon be ready to cut.
Last Sunday two friends and my
self liked over to little village ten
kilometers away. The afternoon
was all that could be desired and
so was the road. The sun was
shining and everything looked more
beautiful than ever before, after our
week of such bad weather. On our
way out we passed woman and a
shepherd dog minding a bunch of
about thirty-five sheep. This is
something that is quite common in
this country, to see a peasant wo-
man and dog minding stock while
they Craze. The country is very
beautiful on both sides of the road.
On the west side are the gently roll
ing fields. with but few trees in
sight, that stretch all the way to
the horizon; there are the gray
stone houses of the farmers with
their barns and straw stacks close
by and in a little valley is a small
stream, fringed with the neat, slen-
der-bodied trees that the French
farmer has on his farm. The roads
over here all have a row of trees on
each side of Them just as the streams
do. These trees are carefully trim
med and all of the limbs are saved
for firewood. When the trees are
large they are topped and the stump
left to grow out new limbs. The
piles OF limbs, nothing more than
switches, are as common at
French farmers home as the straw
stacks are. All the trimmings from
the grapevines are carefully saved
for fuel too. On the north side of
the road the country is not as roll
ing as it is on the south, and there
arethe same grain fields and farm
houses with forest of scrub pine
in the back ground. When we had
gotten out about seven kilometers
we could see the steeple Of church
over on our left or on the east side
of the road and we knew there was
a village where that church was
and so we decided to go to it.
Pretty soon we struck a country
lane that turned off in the direction
OF the church and we took it. We
passed a farmhouse with trees and
shrubs in front and pasture at one
side with a donkey (that hollered as
we passed. and pretty sorrel colt
in it. Across the road boy and
Shepherd dog were Winding five or
six cows while they grazed. The
COWS were fat and fine, the prettiest
had seen since | have been over
here. AT command from the boy
the dog jumped up and drove the
COWS to the house for them to be
MIXED. These people have the
smartest dogs ever saw; they look
very much like the Areidales are at
home. A few minutes walk brou ,bt
us to the village. There were only
five or six houses in it and one
church and a h stel with cafe and
store in it. On one side was a
stone wall around a garden with a
bulletin board on it where notices
were posted for the French. In
front of the church, between it and
the hotel, was a village green, a
beautiful little triangular plot of
ground covereAwith beautiful short
clipped grass. We never went in
the church but we noticed that at
one side there was a slot cut in the
wall for the people of the village to
drop their mail in. A letter box in
the church. On the east side of the
church there was large apple tree