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the people, but also in the features of the country. The 

 green pastures, the trees which, with a taste rarely met 

 with in the New World, have been left here and there 

 standing amongst the fields, the hedgerows, the hops, and 

 honeysuckle that embellish the walls of the cottages, all 

 these remind the old-country man of home, and he can 

 fancy himself here in a little England, not indeed an 

 England of to-day, with its numerous smoky cities and 

 enormous wealth, but an England where wealth is evenly 

 distributed, or rather where there is no great individual 

 wealth, but universal competence. There can be no surer 

 sign of contentment than when people are orderly without 

 any restraint, and the fact that half-a-dozen policemen 

 serve to keep perfect order among a population of 90,000 

 proves that such is the case in Prince Edward Island. It 

 is even said that this "bloated armament" could be dis- 

 pensed with, were it not for the occasional visits of crews 

 of English and American ships. 



This quiet and order are all the more noteworthy as 

 the population is equally divided into Protestant and 

 Roman Catholic. As in other countries where this is the 

 case, the Protestants are very protestant. The Church of 

 England is not largely represented, and episcopacy is far 

 from being regarded with fervour. There is one Angli- 

 can church in Charlotte Town which is to its Puritan 

 neighbours much what a red flag is to an angry bull. 

 People who live in isolated situations are not usually very 

 tolerant of the opinions of others. But in Prince Edward 

 Island, though religious feeling does run rather high, it 

 shows itself in a perfectly harmless and rather amusing 

 way. It is only kind of people who believe that you are 



