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the young people, they went in procession to the place where a quantity of Easter eggs had been distributed upon the ground.
At a signal the runners separated, the one to pick up the eggs according to a prescribed course, the other to run to the next village and back again.
The victory was to the one who accomplished his task first, and he was proclaimed king of the feast.
Hand in hand the runners, followed as before by all their companions, returned to join in the dance now to take place before the house of Dr. Mayor.
After a time the festivities were interrupted by a little address in patoisfrom the first musician, who concluded by announcing from his platform a special dance in honor of the family of Dr. Mayor.
In this dance the family with some of their friends and neighbors took part,—the young ladies dancing with the peasant lads and the young gentlemen with the girls of the village,—while the rest formed a circle to look on.
Thus, between study and recreation, the four years which Agassiz's father and mother intended he should pass at Bienne drew to a close.
A yellow, time-worn sheet of foolscap, on which during the last year of his schoollife he wrote his desiderata in the way of
Houghton, Mifflin and company, New York, Boston, 1885.
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