When he arrived on foot for the place was at no great distance from Agen twelve young girls, clothed in white, offered him a bouquet of flowers, and presented him with an address.

He then entered the carriage and proceeded to the place where he was to give his recitation.

All went well and happily, and a large offering was collected and distributed amongst the poor.
Then at Damazan, where he gave another reading for the same purpose, after he had entered the carriage which was to convey him to the place of entertainment, a number of girls preceded the carriage in which the poet sat, and scattered flowers in his way, singing a refrain of the country adapted to the occasion.

It resembled the refrain sung before the bride in The Blind Girl of Castel-Cuille: "The paths with flowers bestrew, So great a poet comes this way; For all should flower and bloom anew, So great a poet comes to-day."{2} These are only specimens of the way in which Jasmin was received during his missions of philanthropy.

He went from north to south, from east to west, by river and by road, sleeping where he could, but always happy and cheerful, doing his noble work with a full and joyous heart.
He chirruped and sang from time to time as if his mouth was full of nightingales.