THE WALKS ABROAD OF 



same time two arms embraced the doctor. "This 

 confounded train was delayed an accident on the line 

 near Lisieux three-quarters of an hour's waiting in 

 the middle of the fields. Are you really quite well, 

 Uncle Bob ? by the bye, I have brought Black with 

 me. And you, Leon, how are you ? Are you always 

 collecting and dissecting?" 



It is unnecessary to say that this human hurricane, 

 incessantly talking and gesticulating, was none other 

 than our friend Rene, who was thus making up for 

 his time of compulsory quiet and prolonged dumb- 



An old-fashioned omnibus with high wheels, and on 

 its yellow and dusty exterior bearing, like so many 

 others of its sort, as if it were the maker's name, this 

 inscription: " Correspondance du chemin de fer," 

 was waiting. Three places were reserved in this 

 ancient vehicle; but the new comer having declared 

 that he was " tired of being seated," the conductor, a 

 colossus with rubicund visage, wearing, in spite of the 

 season, a thick otter-skin cap, placed with a single 

 effort the luggage under its cover, and the three 

 friends quitted the station preceded by Black, a superb 

 spaniel, who profited by his newly regained liberty to 

 inspect as they went along the stock-grounds at the 

 barriers, to run after and yelp at the fowls in the 

 back yards, and to roll himself in the grass with 

 thorough enjoyment. 



