. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . one ami a half tons is fed dailv to the stock. Thereis a carpenter and blacksmith shop on the ])lace, and a slaughter-house, and also a store in town tor the ^ale ol meat—for one ofthe ])urposes of the Hopkins Brothers is the supplving raised beet in place of the impoited l)eef in themarkets of the countw Hi taking uin- lea\e of FairAroostook, it is with the laiththat I shall come drinks of the RioCxrande waters will return tothe river, no matter liow faraway
. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . one ami a half tons is fed dailv to the stock. Thereis a carpenter and blacksmith shop on the ])lace, and a slaughter-house, and also a store in town tor the ^ale ol meat—for one ofthe ])urposes of the Hopkins Brothers is the supplving raised beet in place of the impoited l)eef in themarkets of the countw Hi taking uin- lea\e of FairAroostook, it is with the laiththat I shall come drinks of the RioCxrande waters will return tothe river, no matter liow faraway he goes, sa>- the Mexi-cans — and in like measureAroostooks incomparablecharms must draw 1)ack to herwhomsoever has once fallenunder her .spell, though seasand continents divide. I n the\ast woods and garden lantlthe types of humanit\- are ascomposite and satisfying asthe blending green and brownand gold of her harvest one finds New F^ngland. moral and religious, with herharsh and narrow aspects of human character softened andbroadened into harmonies akin to the landscape charm of the. >ri> 1 1- ri M IN FAIR AROOSTOOK. rounded fertile hills that roll back to the sky line on every is vScandinavia, trans]ilanted into New Sweden and Stock-holm and Westnianland. with roots that have struck deep andl)ranches that ha\e waxed and spread until the slender colonythat settled in the Maine forest thirt\-two >ears ago hasbecome a large and ])rosi>erous connnunity made up of the bestof citizens. And here, on the 1>ank of the St. John, is mediae-val France merged in harmony with our institutions, its sonsand daughters eager learners at American schools, and its noteof patriotic sentiment expressed in the refrain of its Acadian folk-,song, Mndawaska, How good it is to l)e an American.
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