. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . had received its dead. It was a late season, and in the fields by the wayside the Aca-dians were cutting hay with scythes and sometimes with a mow-ing machine. The growth was luxuriant, and the heads of thetall herdsgrass that grew to the edge of the roadway were on alevel with our horses backs. In relief against the verdurousgrass tints stood the blue of the tufted vetch, which theAcadians call le jardeau, the flaming red of the fireweed and thesheeted ruddiness of clover
. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . had received its dead. It was a late season, and in the fields by the wayside the Aca-dians were cutting hay with scythes and sometimes with a mow-ing machine. The growth was luxuriant, and the heads of thetall herdsgrass that grew to the edge of the roadway were on alevel with our horses backs. In relief against the verdurousgrass tints stood the blue of the tufted vetch, which theAcadians call le jardeau, the flaming red of the fireweed and thesheeted ruddiness of clover fields. Seen through the doorwa\sor seated in front of the houses that we passed, matrons andmaidens were busily spinning with the smallNorman wheels which are turned with atreadle by the foot, while sometimes withindoors we could catch glimpses of the flyingshuttle of a loom. Teams were few on thehighway, but gathered in front of thechurch at Upper Grand Isle, where afuneral service was in progress, we countedmore than fifty teams and carriages aswe passed. Women and girls we sometimes met, knitting as. LITTLE SIMCINNE 60 IN FAIR AROOSTOOK. they walked, and parties of children coming from school whogreeted us, the girls with a courtesy, and the boys by taking offtheir hats. The element of French politeness is in the atmos-phere of Madawaska. Strangers meeting on the road bow toeach other, and the welcome is simple and cordial at the housesone enters on the way. The dogs languidly watch the travelerfrom the dooryards, not offering to bark at his heels, and thepigs and the geese in the pastures continue their avocations ashe passes, regarding his presence with well-bred is ou\y when the crops have been gathered, and they havebeen turned out to range at large, that the pigs lapse from theirgood breeding and vex the travellers soul by occupying theroadway and tripping him and his horse by unexpected sortieswhen he attempts to clear the way. Common schools occur wit
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