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been very strikingly preserved. Though 

 Anglicisms creep in, as must be the 

 case, the language has changed but little, 

 and contains a whole vocabulary of 

 which the Parisian has lost touch. Those 

 who cannot read, transmit words as they 

 hear them, and are not led astray by 

 their appearance on the printed page: 

 illiteracy is a preservative, and semi- 

 literacy a destructive force. 



Honesty being so much a matter of 

 convention, it is difficult to find a com- 

 mon measure of it among the nations. 

 To many French Canadians the govern- 

 ment is a fair mark to shoot at; a de- 

 plorable point of view which other pro- 

 vinces spare no pains to reform, in every 

 way, save by example. Their attitude is 

 likewise reprehended towards natural 

 resources, particularly fish, game and 

 timber. These are depleted very waste- 

 fully, and of course there must be a 

 reckoning, but one might suggest in ex- 

 tenuation that the cause may be found in 



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