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out that his answer to my first question was, &quot; I am 

 waiting* for nobody else,&quot; a singular round-about form 

 of expression, not uncommon in some parts of New 

 England. 



&quot; Do you know So-and-so ? &quot; a person will ask. &quot; I 

 don t know anything else,&quot; will be the reply meaning 

 that the person knows it very well. &quot; Did you meet Mr 

 So-and-so ? &quot; &quot; I didn t meet anybody else, &quot;meaning that 

 he met the person, and probably many others besides. 

 It is rare in any country to meet a provincialism so 

 obviously awkward as this. &quot; I don t know as I shan t,&quot; 

 which is common in eastern Massachusetts, is not nearly 

 so bad ; though both imply a kind of grudging spirit, 

 which is unwilling to favour you with a direct answer. 

 &quot; Do tell,&quot; used in New England for Indeed ! wonder 

 ful ! has much brevity, and a little waggery in it. A 

 stranger, when telling a story, is greeted when he has 

 finished with the exclamation &quot;do tell ! &quot;meaning 

 simply, &quot; do you tell me so ! &quot; but asking him really to 

 tell it again. But, if he do repeat the story in his sim 

 plicity, his hearer listens to him with amazement j and 

 when he has finished repeats also, to his still greater 

 surprise, &quot; do tell ! &quot; 



To East Machias, about twenty-five miles, we pro 

 ceeded on wheels with four horses. The driver was 

 cautious, and went very slow. We then changed, and 

 with a fresh team drove twenty-eight miles further to 

 Cherry field, which we reached half-an-hour after mid 

 night. 



The country through which we passed, during these 

 last twenty-eight miles, consisted of a succession of 

 steep hills, or parallel ridges of land, following each 

 other at short distances, with brief valleys or flats 

 between. It was more like the first part of the Kempt 

 .Road I had passed over, on leaving the shores of the St 

 Lawrence, than any other part of North America it has 



