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something to eat. We were served with an excel- 

 lent dinner in quick time. At his request we 

 gave him a short narrative of our trip. He asked 

 me for my brother's address in Quebec and I 

 heard later that he paid him two or three visits- 

 Very much to his regret we refused his kind offer 

 to stay there overnight, as we wanted to reach 

 Ste. Anne, where I had already arranged for a 

 driver. We could not persuade Mr. Lefrancois 

 to accept anything for his trouble, so thanking 

 him for his kindness we bade him good-bye. 



Mr. Xavier Pare, our driver, had agreed to 

 take us from Ste. Anne to Murray Bay for the 

 small sum of twelve dollars. When we reached 

 Ste. Anne he explained he was charging us very 

 little more than his expenses for the trip, and 

 that he hoped we would not object to walking a lit- 

 tle where the hills were bad. We readily agreed, 

 being quite accustomed to walking, but the next 

 day we found that it was practically all hills and 

 that we were walking all the time, to which I did 

 not object, as I was really more comfortable walk- 

 ing than sitting quiet in the cariole, and getting 

 benumbed with the cold. The roads were so 

 bad that it was night before we reached Baie 

 St. Paul. We put up at a hotel kept by a Mr. 

 Bois. During the evening he asked me many 

 questions about my family and where we had lived 

 on the North Shore. I thought he was rather in- 

 quisitive, but as I had nothing to hide I gave him 



