XIII. 



The Eoad to Touques on a fair-day Reptiles An example to be imitated 

 by the market-gardeners of France Doubtful forms A reptile with 

 a strong anatomical resemblance to a bird Birds provided with teeth 

 Uses of reptiles Barometer No. 2 seems likely to be right. 



AT Touques it was the day of the fair, and the road 

 to the town, though usually rather deserted, was on 

 this occasion traversed by many of the country people. 



Milk-carts quite covered with mud, their usual 

 complement of tin cans replaced for the time being by 

 children rolling about in the straw ; tilburys driven 

 by heavy brazen-faced farmers, wearing blouses and 

 silk hats ; cabriolets, whose leathern hood, reddened 

 by long exposure to the storms, tottered and groaned, 

 the iron springs supporting it being old and rusty ; 

 in short all sorts and sizes of vehicles, known and un- 

 known, probable and improbable, had apparently been 

 brought into use, and raised thick clouds of dust 

 which almost blinded the travellers on foot. 



Occasionally there might be seen groups of lasses 

 in their Sunday best, going in little parties together, 

 hand in hand, their important business being to select 



