. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. A big spinning-wheel almost over-awed the sewing machine,and madame told me she had a loom too. Over the four-posted bed were pictures of the Pope in red andNapoleon in blue ; the spruce bough tied to the crucifix was blessed bj the priest on Palm Sunday, and abottle of holy water, a souvenir of the joyous Easter, stood on the mantle besides s
. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. A big spinning-wheel almost over-awed the sewing machine,and madame told me she had a loom too. Over the four-posted bed were pictures of the Pope in red andNapoleon in blue ; the spruce bough tied to the crucifix was blessed bj the priest on Palm Sunday, and abottle of holy water, a souvenir of the joyous Easter, stood on the mantle besides some rare old china mugsthat no money can buy. Snowshoes and guns nailed to the ceiling betokened the winter sports. Felicewas helping her father to pack the chest for to-morrows market at Quebec, where the young girl loved to goto see the world, as it seemed to her. Cest joli, she said, showing her beautiful white teeth. What a taleof thrift, economy and family industry that chest told me. There were skeins of woolen jarn, straw mats,two dozen penny noze-gays of marigolds, a few pounds of maple sugar, two plump hens, rebellious over theirlost freedom, bunches of herbs and garden sauce, a basket of eggs, and suspended in the well, all ready a 88. s pail of golden butter. There was also some rag carpeting, around which clustered the expectations ofFelice for a new dress. They row up on the afternoon or evening tide, sleep on the boat, and are ready forearly Market. Au revoir and bon voyage from the whole family, as if we were old friends, marked ourdeparture. The habitant never hurries, never worries, but goes through life in a happy-go-lucky content, alwaysready to leave his work for a days fishing or a fete, and he dances as merrily as if no cold winter could everovertake him. The roads are notoriously bad, and his little two-wheeled cart is nearlj upset ever) market-daj-, but he smiles serenely and never thinks of repairing them. A bright New York child, who was oncetravelling
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