s we have already seen in Going to Work. We see here married people a few years

too, and are somewhat better dressed than common laborers. It is the highest ambition of the French peasant to own a bit of land

ms, but live instead in village communities, with the farms in the outlying districts. The custom has many advantages. The families may help one another in various ways both by joining forces and exchanging services

r between house and field. The strong little creature can carry a heavy load properly disposed in pannier baskets. The panniers are made very deep and wide, but rather

ak, it forms a nice cradle for the baby. The babies in French peasant families are often left at home with the grandmother, while the mother goes out to field work. The painter Millet himself was in chil

e to country people, second perhaps to the wheat, as it supplies food to both man and beast. The commoner varieties, as

ght him to use skilfully. The wife carries the potato seed in her apron, and as her husband lifts each spadeful of earth, she throws the seed into the hole thus made. He holds the hoe suspended a m

an has the serious, capable look of a provident husband. The woman looks like a good housewife.

n stretches almost literally as far as the eye can reach," and presents "a generally level and open surface." "There are no isolated farmhouses, and no st

s of the painter's acquaintance were on the whole a prosperous class, nearly all owning their houses and a few acres

ow the leaves of the apple-tree are bunched together on their twigs, and how the roots spread under ground. "

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tions of Jean Fran?ois Millet, in