Show THEY LIVE STILTED LIVES Hc Residents In lii Turpentine District of France Have Ua la Ia 1 People live lve on sixteen foot l-fol l stilts In Inthe Inthe Inthe the remarkable e turpentine growing country of ot France The They dub don these thesE stilts nf after el breakfast and do to not re remove 1 ie Ir bed move them again until It I Is time line for I 4 There are two two reasons lot for the he wearIng wearIng wearing wear- wear Ing of stilts stills In the turpentine countr country One Is Js time the turpentine gathering The Theother Theother Theother other Is the thc herding of the tue great flot flocks s Th J turpentine comes from the maritime pine pint This tree Is taPped lapped a shingle is Inserted and from froni the lie shingle Is hUI hung humig a tidy bucket Into I which the lie turpentine drips The tapping tapping tapping tap tap- ping process is like let that thal used on the American sugar maple Young pi pine he trees tree are tapped but wih with each years year's ars ar's pas passage g the Incision I Is made hl higher her so that lint It I Is not long before before before be be- fore most niost of the lie trees are tapped twenty eny or thirty feet reet from the ground Hence the he huge stilts of or the lie work work- mud men On these stilts they traverse th time the flat country covering five or six yards with each stride and quickly and an easily ens- ens ea- ea ily Iy thc they collect the turpentine that overflows the lie little buckets hanging high up In the he trees It I Is for herding also that the stilts are useful The country country- Is Js er very flat fat an and the herdsman unless he lie continually hilly ally climbed a a tree would be c unable tunable to ke keep p the lie members o of his huge flock In sight But striding g about on his stilts he lie commands a wl wide l' l pros pros- peet He Is always as It J were upon a hill bill hi The stilt stil wearers carr carry a foot fifteen foot staff staf with wih a round flat rat tot top J like a din din- dinner dinner ner ncr plate When It J is Js lunch time or when they arc are tired the they plant upright under them the staff star and an sit tl down own on Js Its roun round flat fat top op Then in comfort seated so 9 dizzily high the they lucy eat al and anti andrest andrest rest and chatter chatter chatter-a chatel a a str strange nse sight sighs to behold I I I |