AND THE WILDERNESS BLOSSOMED 



and pray, why not Insley also ? The Hub is 

 distinguished for a wonderfully good grocery- 

 store of which Mr. S. S. Pierce was the founder. 

 Now, all the English-speaking world know per- 

 fectly well what the letters P-i-e-r-c-e spell, ex- 

 cept Boston, and she serenely declares that these 

 letters spell Purse. That she may be consistent, 

 she also insists that it was Franklin Purse who 

 was fourteenth President of the United States. 

 Doubtless they carry this to the bitter end, and a 

 business man of Boston is pursed with regret if he 

 misses an opportunity to put money in his pierce. 

 But what do Boston people do with their brows 

 and their lips ? Purse them or pierce them ? 



One hard-worked word in Maine is " trade." 

 All sorts of buying, selling, exchanging, or, so far 

 as I can understand, entering into any sort of a 

 contract, is to " make a trade." The Deacons 

 of the Church make a trade with the clergyman 

 for his services, and when I told Al Wilbur that 

 Mrs. Landell's French maid was engaged to be 

 married to one of the guides and that she could 

 not speak a word of English, Al remarked with 

 lively interest, " Well, I don't see how they made 

 the trade then." 



When these men go off into the woods, they 

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