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FRANCE, IN OLD TIMES.
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picture. Uniting simplicity with comfort, it stood on a gentle slope of ground. In front, a row of chesnuts reared a canopy of lofty shade. Here the traveller sometimes rested, refreshing himself with the water of a little fountain, which clear as crystal, oozed into a rustic, limestone reservoir. In the rear of our residence, rose a hill, where our goats found herbage. There they might sometimes be seen, maintaining so slight a footing on projecting cliffs, as if they hung suspended by the mouth, from the slight branch they were cropping. The tall poplars, which were interspersed among the foliage, conveyed to us the pensive murmur of approaching storms, and around their trunks, mossy seats
