| Show where women work the smallest dependency of prance la Is the ile he dHo dIllo edle odle situated at the east ot of belle isle its population Is IB two hundred and thirty eight they do not speak french except the cure and thi the school master hut but celtic and they are provided with food at an inn managed by the women fishing Is the principal industry the profits are divided up each year among the inhabitants the men live on soup and fish ind and smoke pipes with lobster claws for stems the women do all the hard bard work got get in the harvest look out for wreckage and gather seaweed from which they extract soda tho the town has no streets the houses are of mud the islanders havo a yearly feast in the early arly part of october the island possesses a good water supply the governing body Is composed of the ten ancients of the place under the direction of the cure |
