Excerpt from Life in Other Lands When this event takes place there is a holiday for the entire village. For hours, Jules has been rubbing the coats of the cattle to make them sleek and clean. The streets are thronged with envious boys and girls, feeble old men. And proud but saddened wives and mothers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.