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A quiet scene in the countryside of Belgium near the French border. The old man is on his way home with his little granddaughter, These dog carts are often seen in Belgium and Holland, bakers, milk dealers, and peddlers using dogs to seated in the cart drawn by dogs.

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where shrimps are abundant on the sandy shores, this is a common sight at low tide. The girls wade through as the nets fill, to the baskets on their backs.

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Along the coast of Brittany are found perhaps the most intrepid fishermen in all France, and strangely enough hardly one of them can They have a Celtic language of their own, not unlike the tongues of their cousins, the Welsh and Irish, on the other

speak a word of French.

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