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Show LIVE IN PRIMITIVE 8TATE. French Peasants Who Know Little ol s Life's Strenuousness. . If It Is" hard to' know anything about tho sttrfaco life of the Blgoudlncs, It is still more difficult to penetrnto their thought; to know whether their brains are agitated by anything but the simple sim-ple ideas of tho very prlmltivo peoples, peo-ples, tho nalvo roveries of children, or whether they havo presorved some valued traditions of the upheavals of humanity which have ended by casting cast-ing them upon this oxtremo point ot land. They speak a languago which has no nfullatlon with any ordinary tongue. It is Breton, but a Breton Vill of unknown words and strango Idioms, as yot unstudied by any philologist. philol-ogist. As to tho French language, they ignore it, intentionally lgnoro it From Andre Saglio's "Tho Blgoudlncs." |