Thence, perhaps, its wide popularity among physicians.
One morning early, Jean-Marie led forth the Doctor's noddy, opened the gate, and mounted to the driving-seat.

The Doctor followed, arrayed from top to toe in spotless linen, armed with an immense flesh-coloured umbrella, and girt with a botanical case on a baldric; and the equipage drove off smartly in a breeze of its own provocation.

They were bound for Franchard, to collect plants, with an eye to the 'Comparative Pharmacopoeia.' A little rattling on the open roads, and they came to the borders of the forest and struck into an unfrequented track; the noddy yawed softly over the sand, with an accompaniment of snapping twigs.

There was a great, green, softly murmuring cloud of congregated foliage overhead.

In the arcades of the forest the air retained the freshness of the night.