The Game of "Soule."

It was in the department of Morbihan that Paganism found its last stronghold in France, and this department is still charged with having many devotees who only overlay their paganism with Christian rites. The ferocious game of "Soule" has survived the onward march of civilization, though it is now becoming rare. The dangerous game, peculiar to Brittany, is played with a large leather ball filled with bran. The ball is thrown into the midst of the combatants, and he who, at the close of the day, remains in the possession of it is the honored victor. It is a life and death struggle; yet the persistency with which the right to the possession of the ball is maintained is not the most dangerous characteristic. A blow is frequently given in the general melee which at any other time would lay the offender open to the charge of assassination. It affords the cruel and vindictive Morbihannais an opportunity to wreak a long-cherished revenge upon his enemy.