Show HUNGRY TRAVELERS v an on n lofty eteau in alio Py renee pedestrian less hungry than hector france and friend might have been intimidated timi dated by alie forbidding aspect of a man whom they found bitting la front of 1 solitary bouse on a lofty plateau in the pyrenees Pyre nees with castilian gravity and reserve be showed no surprise at seeing them and refused to sell or elve them food and lodging ills wife joined him and said that it the strangers did not stay to talk but went right on they would reach an inn before dark but this spanish reserve was nofa so impenetrable as it seemed as the travelers soon discovered they saw too that some degree of indifference might rationally be expected of persons who could cheerfully live so remote from the world here we are and hero we shall stay said my friend martiniere Martin lere do yon always treat passersby in this way passersby Pass crsby tharo aro none where should they to estella there Is a road thither except tor the mountain priests no one passed since the ago frenchmen four years ago but that was I 1 cried martiniere Martin lere 1 I and an english friend we stopped here to cook our game bo you not remember me sc norita the examined his face and exclaimed truly it is acl then they drew us into the the husband took off our knapsacks the senor ita hastened to get supper and the children came smilingly out of the corners where they had hidden itne bread milk eggs garlic preserves onions olives everything they had they offered us and they wished to kill a chicken to make a soup and also to cook an omelet an old figure in dilapidated clothes a man about seventy five years old appeared at the door the children ran to meet him father they cried here are frenchmen it Is the priest said our hostess ah frenchmen I 1 said the old man 1 I knew some frenchmen in the time of loula phelippe pe he was a good man I 1 have heard that he is dead yes he has been dead a long time and the emperor aaker the priest which emperor are you speaking of napoleon I 1 or napoleon III I 1 replied the good man stared in amazement then he bald 1 I do not care to talk poll bics tics I 1 know nothing about them he had never seen the railway had hardly of late years been down to the village below but forty years before he had visited rome and he advised ns to go there what do yon do here father we asked oh I 1 have my mass my rosary my garden and my bees you must come and see my bees he said and what does the government pay you sixty dobros about sixty five dollars a year ah then you must save a good deall the sarcasm passed unperceived no I 1 spend it all he answered innocently 1 I pay for my board with good people and what la left I 1 give the children M france |