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Life In Town And Country, by Anatole France 1 Life In Town And Country, by Anatole France Life In Town And Country, by Anatole France 2 Project Gutenbergs Child Life In Town And Country, by Anatole France This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title: Child Life In Town And Country 1909 Author: Anatole France Translator: Alfred Allinson Release Date: May 9, 2008 [EBook #25408] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILD LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY *** Produced by David Widger THE MERRIE TALES OF JACQUES TOURNEBROCHE AND CHILD LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY By Anatole France John Lane Company, MCMXIX Copyright 1909 John Lane Company CHILD LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY FANCHON [Illustration: 164] I FANCHON went early one morning, like Little Red Riding-Hood, to see her grandmother, who lives right at the other end of the village. But Fanchon did not stop like little Red Riding-Hood, to gather nuts in the wood. She went straight on her way and she did not meet the wolf. From a long way off she saw her grandmother sitting on the stone step at her cottage door, a smile on her toothless mouth and her arms, as dry and knotty as an old vine-stock, open to welcome her little granddaughter. It rejoices Fanchons heart to spend a whole day with her grandmother; and her grandmother, whose trials and troubles are all over and who lives as happy as a cricket in the warm chimney-corner, is rejoiced too to see her sons little girl, the picture of her own childhood. They have many things to tell each other, for one of them is coming back from the journey of life which the other is setting out on. Life In T