A CHRISTMAS JAUNT 



Madame Menier, who rose hospitably 

 and handsomely to the occasion. 



Next day the Intercolonial arrived 

 with its usual punctual lateness, but the 

 ferry waited for it, and the crossing was 

 duly achieved in the teeth of a clearing 

 gale from the north-west. A hundred 

 miles of coast line from the Saguenay 

 to the Capes was visible, while range on 

 range of stark, snowy mountains car- 

 ried the eye back to the wild highlands 

 of the interior. 



Even from the South Shore we heard 

 the booming of blasts where the new 

 railway, the railway that is to bring 

 wealth to the countryside, is in construc- 

 tion. May it indeed be so, as the price 

 is heavy enough. Dynamite has rent the 

 familiar outline of Pointe a Pic; the 

 beach where generations of children 

 have played has become a railway yard ; 

 all the dear familiar spots along the 

 shore are profaned and desolated ; three 

 times within a mile does the line cross 



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