II. 



Disenchantment What one can do at Villers when there is nothing better 

 A new and peculiar definition of zoology The laboratory Chestnuts 

 without chestnut-trees A new arrangement in teeth An individual 

 with 3,840 feet How to fish for the launce or sand-eel A sea-worm 

 and its mode of breathing Animal-plants A very badly educated 

 creature The way one should adopt to grow The four branches of the 

 animal kingdom. 



THE following morning before Rene awoke the sun 

 had long since cast its beams through the curtains of 

 his apartment, but he soon arose with the contented 

 air of one who has slept well, opened his window, and 

 took a look at the sea. 



There was already a considerable stir near the house 

 and on the beach. An old sailor had fastened a net 

 to some nails on a wall, and was mending its torn 

 meshes with great strokes of a shuttle. Beyond was 

 the immense expanse of blue water, infringed on near 

 its edge by the fishers for shrimps, who went back- 

 wards and forwards in the water up to the middle of 

 their bodies. Some fishing-boats, locally called "plates," 

 were returning with difficulty, and with much assist- 

 ance by oars and sails, to the port of Trouville. In 



