Old women, whom you would really think at their last gasp, become at the harvest and vintage times as active and healthy as girls.

You can witness that phenomenon very soon," said Sibilet, addressing Blondet, "for the harvest, which was put back by the rains in July will begin next week, when they cut the rye.

The gleaners must have a certificate of pauperism from the mayor of the district, and no district should allow any one to glean except the paupers; but the districts of one canton do glean in those of another without certificate.

If we have sixty real paupers in our district, there are at least forty others who could support themselves if they were not so idle.

Even persons who have a business leave it to glean in the fields and in the vineyards.