The Old Weevils 
learnt to appreciate the Beccafico,1 famous 
among the Roman epicures and _ still 
renowned to-day, under the name of Grasset, 
among our Provencal gastronomers. It is 
a pity that my bit of silver says nothing of 
these events, more memorable than any 
battle. 
It shows on one side a head and on the 
other a galloping horse, all barbarously 
inaccurate. A child trying its hand for the 
first time with a sharp-pointed stone on the 
fresh mortar of the walls would produce 
no more shapeless design. No, of a surety, 
those bold Allobroges were no artists. 
How greatly superior to them were the 
foreigners from Phocea! Here is a 
drachma of the Massalietes :2 MAZZAAIHTON, 
On the obverse, a head of Diana of Ephesus, 
chub-faced, full-cheeked, thick-lipped. A 
receding forehead, surmounted by a diadem; 
an abundant head of hair, streaming down 
the neck in a cascade of curls; heavy ear- 
drops, a pearl necklace, a bow slung over the 
1The Garden Warbler, or Bush-pipet, a bird which is 
considered a great delicacy, especially in the autumn, 
when it feeds on figs, grapes and soon. Cf. The Hunt- 
ing Wasps, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander 
Teixeira de Mattos: chap. xii—Translator’s Note. 
2From Massalia, the ancient name of Marseilles, of 
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