. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . ngwoman, who sjDoke with aFrench accent and who wil-lingly sta5^ed to show us theschool room. Even with the narrowness of the fiat boards thatserved for seats and desk tops, it was not easy to see how so manychildren could find a chance in this bird-house of a school roomto recite and study. But that they did, and that they learned andunderstood their lessons, the teacher, a graduate henself of thetraining school at Fort Kent, assured us. The books used in theMadawaska common schools a
. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . ngwoman, who sjDoke with aFrench accent and who wil-lingly sta5^ed to show us theschool room. Even with the narrowness of the fiat boards thatserved for seats and desk tops, it was not easy to see how so manychildren could find a chance in this bird-house of a school roomto recite and study. But that they did, and that they learned andunderstood their lessons, the teacher, a graduate henself of thetraining school at Fort Kent, assured us. The books used in theMadawaska common schools are mainly in the primer gradeand to teach these children intelligently it is necessary that theteacher should know French as well as English. At Nadeau the military road, which has led over the hills fromthe time it left Portage, comes down to the Fish River againand it between St. Froid and Eagle Lakes. Here therailroad extension, which has followed the valley from Portage,reappears and, passing the river, continues down the shore ofEagle Lake. The Fish River is crossed twice by the extension,. LITTLE AC.\DIAN« IN FAIR AROOSTOOK. 35 with bridges respectively 180 and 270 feet long. The onlyother important bridge on the new line is one of 75 feet spanover the Allagash. All the bridges are of iron and of mostapproved construction, and they rest on piers of granite masonryor concrete. Few stretches of railroad in America lie for an equal distancethrough a region so replete with tranquil landscape charm andquaint historical association as that which is traversed by thelast twenty miles of the Bangor & Aroostook extension to FortKent. From Ashland to Nadeau much of the route is shutfrom the view of the broad lake and woodland spaces to rightand left b^- the dense forest growth. But at Nadeau andbe5ond come views of Eagle Lake, the blue oval centre of avast amphitheatre of wooded hills as it stretches off to the east,and a long water reach where the road skirts its seven-m
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