Thus pass the autumn and the spring, the seasons of the _Hydnocystis_, in the pleasures of the table and removal from one house to another.
To study the insect _rabassier_ in my own house I had to obtain a small store of its favourite food.

To seek it myself, by digging at random, would have resulted merely in waste of time; the little cryptogam is not so common that I could hope to find it without a guide.

The truffle-hunter must have his dog; my guide should be the Bolboceras itself.

Behold me, then, a _rabassier_ of a kind hitherto unknown.

I have told my secret, although I fear my original teacher will laugh at me if he ever hears of my singular form of competition.
The subterranean fungi grow only at certain points, but they are often found in groups.