Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle Page #3

She can tell...

See?

Come meet my neighbors.

Hi, Kitty.

Mr. Housseau...

A pleasure.

Mrs. Housseau...

She's from Paris,

likes the countryside.

She's in the right place!

Like what?

- Strawberries!

- They always bloom...

They're lovely!

They've been lazy.

Took 'em time to grow...

Really?

Because of winter frost?

Frost, maybe...

Dampness...

That's a rosebush?

Yes, it blooms...

Fabulous strawberries!

Ripe for picking.

- May I?

- Go ahead.

Excellent strawberries...

Here, Reinette.

I'll eat one.

- Really ripe!

- Not like in central Paris!

That's summer cabbage.

Those purple ones?

They're in with the leeks,

the first we get.

Known as summer leeks.

Why?

They come out first,

and you eat 'em right away:

in 6 weeks they'll be overgrown.

- The lettuce is big too!

- It's chicory.

Cooking lettuce.

What are those big things...

with little white flowers?

Potatoes... no,

maybe they're beans.

Shall we check?

Could be beans.

Pretty flowers.

What's all this?

Will you tell me?

Radishes, cucumbers,

and endives...

How do endives grow?

Don't we eat the root?

We gather the root

and bury it for the winter.

All winter?

They grow big white heads...

They're called endives.

And the leaves?

Rabbits eat them...

No leaves.

I'll make you bloom!

I'll put some in your pocket...

a buttonhole!

Pink and blue's pretty.

Where do cows go

during the day?

Down to the meadow...

We've made a path

so they can reach the woods.

- This way?

- Yes, by that path.

So this is the way to reach them?

You can take the other route, too.

They have a shelter for when it rains.

It's not a nice day.

Think it'll rain?

Those mean nothing...

I think it'll rain.

I'll get my raincoat.

You never know.

Stitch in time saves nine!

Can't always be right.

Lovely poppies!

Can we pick some?

But they die in vases.

It's starting to rain hard.

Got a hood?

I love rain.

It's good for the hair.

We keep going?

Too bad it's raining today.

Doesn't matter. I'll have seen

the countryside in all weather...

You graduate high-school?

Last year.

And I never went to school.

Then you did it by correspondence.

I liked that...

In school I always had problems.

It's so dumb!

Their schedules!

You study a new subject every hour!

- I know, I went!

- It's idiotic.

So what's next?

Next year I'm applying

to the Art Institute. When I draw...

I know when it's wrong,

but I don't know why.

I think I could improve my technique...

There I'll admit school could help.

But otherwise!

It's true, technique helps.

Where'll you live?

I have cousins in Sartrouville.

That's a long way away.

20 minutes from Paris.

That's an hour's travel every day!

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