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FAMOUS AISLES OF STONE MADE BY PREHISTORIC MEN I CARNAC, PRANCE 



"In even rows, the stones — from 4 to 16 feet in height — stretch across the desolate gray 

 moor literally by the thousand. What story do they tell? Was this the burial ground of a 

 nation? Do these unresponsive monuments hide the untold tale of a terrible field of blood 

 and the wiping out of an army of thousands?" (see text, page 419). 



THE MARRIAGE MART AT PONT i/ABBE 



Pont l'Abbe has an amusing side-show 

 to its pardon in the marriage mart that 

 draws its own interested crowd. Any 

 young woman who wishes a husband 

 poses against the churchyard fence with 

 her similarly wistful sisters, and love- 

 lorn swains march up and down the line, 

 inspecting with the sheepish gravity the 

 occasion requires. Once suited, however, 



the Breton views his new property as a 

 little less valuable than one of his great 

 "beefs," or steers. 



The weddings themselves are vastly 

 more human and interesting than our 

 own, and in them all the childlike gaiety 

 of a simple and unaffected people comes 

 out spontaneously. The dual ceremony — 

 in church and town hall — once over, the 

 newlyweds and their attendant friends 



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