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country around, as he went from village to village among the sick.
The grandmother was frail in health, but a great favorite among the children, for whom she had an endless fund of stories, songs, and hymns.
Aunt Lisette, an unmarried daughter, who long lived to maintain the hospitality of the old Cudrefin house and to be beloved as the kindest of maiden aunts by two or three generations of nephews and nieces, was the domestic providence of these family gatherings, where the praises of her excellent dishes were annually sung.
The roof was elastic; there was no question about numbers, for all came who could; the more, the merrier, with no diminution of good cheer.
The Sunday after Easter was the great popular fete.
Then every house was busy coloring Easter eggs and making fritters.
The young girls and the lads of the village, the former in their prettiest dresses and the latter with enormous bouquets of artificial flowers in their hats, went together to church in the morning.
In the afternoon the traditional match between two runners, chosen from the village youths, took place.
They were dressed in white, and adorned with bright ribbons.
With music before them, and followed by all
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