A Wayside Cross.
Two of the principal events in these journeys were visits to a horse fair at Le Folgoet, and to a cattle fair at Carhaix, where Caldecott made the following sketches:—
"Le Folgoet is in the north of Finisterre, in the north-west corner of Brittany. The country is for the most part flat and dreary in aspect; a few fields of buckwheat, corn, and rye are passed on the road, protected by banked-up hedges, and skirted by pollard trees.
At the Horse Fair, Le Folgoet.
"On the road as we approach the fair, a mile and a half from the town, is a characteristic figure, a barefooted gamin with red cap and grey jersey trotting out an old chestnut mare." As he stops and turns to look back, he is thus rapidly recorded in a sketch.
Trotting out Horses at Carhaix.Trotting out Horses at Carhaix.