Down North and Up Along 
was aglow with flowers of such brightness and 
profusion that they are still remembered. 
We should have liked to see the village in 
its flower-garden age. In its nook back of the 
great sea basin, with its setting of impressive 
bluffs that make Minas at this point so splen- 
didly picturesque, and with ample flower-gar- 
dens brightening the stern coast, it must have 
been well worth a visit. 
In spite of the pebbly shore whose stones 
roll under the feet, the visitor will not be long 
in finding his way across to Partridge Island, 
which is as delightful as a mountain of crys- 
tals ought to be. On the land side it is thickly 
wooded with rather small " hard wood " trees, 
as the people here call all but the conifers ; and 
we wandered along a grassy winding path, 
quite away from the outer world, into a wild- 
wood seclusion. 
Presently we came to firs and spruces cov- 
ered with sage-green moss, and then to a 
hollow where the trees were dead, standing in 
close ranks with gray, interlaced limbs, heavily 
mantled with sage-green moss that hung like 
beards from the lower branches. It was a fit 
dwelling-place for the gnomes, its deep recesses 
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