Toward Cape Breton 
dral services being part of the time conducted 
in that tongue. Considering all this, it is not 
surprising that Antigonish is a large settlement. 
It is said to draw a large part of its revenue 
from its foggy Newfoundland brethren whom 
it supplies with cheese and other provisions — 
at a good profit. 
We stayed only a moment at Antigonish, but 
sped away and away and past a blue lake at the 
foot of blue hills. The haymakers were busy 
on its marshy shores with the last cutting of 
the season, women with turned-up petticoats 
and bright handkerchiefs over their heads, and 
men plying the decadent scythe. 
Marshy lakes and low-lying hills, beautiful 
in the light of a poetic day, made charming 
this part of the journey, and then of a sudden 
the sea came into view, deep blue in the hazy 
atmosphere with distant shores of heavenly 
colouring. 
Straight poplars and venerable willows 
greeted us as we entered the Acadian village 
of Tracadie. Seen in this light, with the en- 
chanting blues of the distant sea and the near 
inlets, with the fair shores and the picturesque 
group of gray-shingled buildings, the monastery 
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