star," and the second, "the summit of the fountain of the mountain of
the vine."

These be scarcely fair samples, however. Commoner words and some of
their more musical phrases are instanced in the following, taken in the
dialect of this region of St. Jean:

_Haran_, Valley.
_Etchelde_, Farm.
_Ogi_, Bread.
_Egur_, Wood.
_Maraza_, Hatchet.
_Nekarsale_, Workman.
_Aita_, My father.
_Lo_, Sleep.
_Etche_, House.
_Etchetar_, Household.
_Nerhaba_, Child.
_Nescatcha_, Maiden.
_Zorioneko_, Happy.
_Ama_, My mother.
_Neure maiteak_, My loved ones.

Home words, such as these latter, give a glimpse of this people's home
life. For they are devoted to their household as to their tribe, and
uniformly show a certain homely honesty and simplicity underneath all
their free ways. Love of smuggling does not impugn this honesty,--in
their own view, at all events; for the Basque, man and woman, is a born
smuggler, and believing it right is not ashamed. Indeed, they make
common cause of it; for years, if a revenue officer detected and shot a