AN ACADIAN VILLAGE 



houses. It is said that Newfoundland owes 

 the purity of its air to the fact that the in- 

 habitants keep their doors and windows tightly 

 closed, and it seems probable that Labrador 

 owes its wonderful atmosphere to the same 

 cause. 



The church with its steeple and the priests' 

 house were of ample proportions, well painted 

 and prosperous looking, and timber was being 

 hauled for a new convent to replace the one 

 recently burned. In the convent the youth of 

 the region is instructed by the good sisters. Sev- 

 eral large crosses were placed at various points in 

 the village and a crucifix was in the little burial 

 ground. From the eastern extremity of the 

 town to the church, a distance of over a mile, 

 a long, narrow, well fenced lane stretched 

 parallel with the beach, and in this lane a few 

 cattle always wandered. One of these was 

 familiarly known to my friend and myself 

 as " Paul Potter's bull " from his resemblance 

 to that celebrated animal, but his familiarity 

 with the human race at close quarters had 

 rendered his disposition so amiable that we 

 soon lost our instinctive fear of him. The 

 object of the high fences on either side of the 



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