AN ACADIAN VILLAGE 
houses. It is said that Newfoundland owes 
the purity of its air to the fact that the in- 
habitants keep their doors and windows tightly 
closed, and it seems probable that Labrador 
owes its wonderful atmosphere to the same 
cause. 
The church with its steeple and the priests’ 
house were of ample proportions, well painted 
and prosperous looking, and timber was being 
hauled for a new convent to replace the one 
recently burned. In the convent the youth of 
the region is instructed by the good sisters. Sev- 
eral large crosses were placed at various points in 
the village and a crucifix was in the little burial 
ground. From the eastern extremity of the 
town to the church, a distance of over a mile, 
a long, narrow, well fenced lane stretched 
parallel with the beach, and in this lane a few 
cattle always wandered. One of these was 
familiarly known to my friend and myself 
as ‘‘ Paul Potter’s bull’ from his resemblance 
to that celebrated animal, but his familiarity 
with the human race at close quarters had 
rendered his disposition so amiable that we 
soon lost our instinctive fear of him. The 
object of the high fences on either side of the 
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