. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . A( ADIAN MAIDHNS OF TO-DAY IN FAIR AROOSTOOK. 41 On a plateau back of the barracks were the tents of the civilengineers in charge of the northerly division of the railroadextension. Their families were with them, sharing the camplife that in the Aroostook seems to attain ideal conditions, withthe cool, northern sunnner air and scenic surroundings in a landwhere no dangerous wild beast prowls or venomous reptileintrudes. As we drove away in the hush of the sunset hour theItalian
. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . A( ADIAN MAIDHNS OF TO-DAY IN FAIR AROOSTOOK. 41 On a plateau back of the barracks were the tents of the civilengineers in charge of the northerly division of the railroadextension. Their families were with them, sharing the camplife that in the Aroostook seems to attain ideal conditions, withthe cool, northern sunnner air and scenic surroundings in a landwhere no dangerous wild beast prowls or venomous reptileintrudes. As we drove away in the hush of the sunset hour theItalians by their fires were cooking their evening meal of beansboiled with macaroni and flavored with garlic and cheese andpeppers. The white tents of the engineers, the long, low bar-racks, the sod huts, like grotesque earth mounds, and theswarthy figures grouped against the blaze of a dozen fires, withthe background of the placid lake and forested hills beyond,would have served well as the mise-en-scene of some grandopera. Where the town of Fort Kent begins and its farming suburbchanges into village, is not apparent
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