II4 STORIES FROM DAUDET

moment very thoughtfully. Then she
said :

‘It is true, then, that you shepherds
are all given to witchcraft ?’

‘Not at all, lady ; but we live nearer
to the stars, and we know what goes on
there better than the folks of the
plain.’

She still looked up at the sky, her
head supported on her hand, wrapped
in her sheepskin, looking like a little
angelic shepherd.

‘How many there are! Oh, how
beautiful! I never saw so many
before. Do you know their names,
shepherd ?’

‘Certainly, lady. See there, just
above us, is St. James’s Way (the
Milky Way). It goes straight from
France to Spain. St. James of Galicia
drew it to show the way to the valiant
Charlemagne when he made war on
the Saracens. Farther is the Wain of
Souls (the Great Bear), with its four
shining axle-trees. The three stars in