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That Sunday was a feast day in the village, the yearly feast of their patron saint, called in Normandy the Assemblée.
For a week, strange vehicles were seen coming by every road, dragged along by grey or roan hacks, and housing the travelling families of regular showmen, with gambling-outfits, shooting-galleries, and amusements of all kinds, and men showing curiosities, for whom the peasants had a curious name of their own.