text:  The little villages so unlike our own and yet so admirably fitted for peasant comfort the homesteads embedded in plantations of willows the neatness of every thing round the farm-houses and even the sleekness of the cattle which seemed by their tameness to form a part of the habitancy--all were objects of constant remark on our march; and we could easily comprehend the horror with which the arrival of a French commissariat must strike these comfortable burghers