The ProcessTonary : the Procession 



would perish on their insidious ribbon if the 

 disorder of the nocturnal encampments and 

 the halts due to fatigue did not cast a few 

 threads outside the circular path. Some three 

 or four move along these trails, laid without 

 an object, stray a little way and, thanks to 

 their wanderings, prepare the descent, which 

 is at last accomplished in short strings fa- 

 voured by chance. 



The school most highly honoured to-day is 

 very anxious to find the origin of reason in 

 the dregs of the animal kingdom. Let me 

 call its attention to the Pine Processionary. 



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