A CHEISTMAS JAUNT 



These settlements have prospered by 

 supplying land, houses, services, and 

 food to summer migrants who have gone 

 there seeking tranquillity, and will flee 

 before the shriek of the locomotive. 

 Thoughtful villagers are beginning to 

 see that alluring promises of'de I'ouv- 

 rage pour tout le monde" have meant 

 little and will mean less to them, while 

 the imported regiment of foreign rail- 

 way navvies has brought with it crimes 

 of violence that were unheard of in this 

 law-abiding place. They realize what 

 they are like to lose, and are coming to 

 doubt that prosperity is a commodity 

 which may be carried at will to any 

 point in freight cars. 



The wharf at Pointe a Pic was a cheer- 

 less place that we were glad to escape 

 from, to the warmth and welcome of 

 Johnny Gagnon's; and how surpass- 

 ingly good were the soup and part- 

 ridges, the pastry and feather-light 

 croquignoles, the home-made jam, re- 



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