Baddeck 
one street was unpaved, and its shops wore 
a submissive air of having done no business 
for several generations — with one exception. 
There is one store of general merchandise of 
such modern aspect and such activity as to 
seem wholly out of place in Baddeck. 
But on the whole the village preserved the 
same Sunday-like serenity that so puzzled the 
genial author of " Baddeck and that Sort of 
Thing," since whose visit years enough have 
passed to revolutionise " American " politics 
and see the rise and fall of more than one large 
" American " city, yet there sits Baddeck on 
the shore of her Bras d'Or, just as she sat 
then, excepting that the old jail has made way 
for a new one. It was explained to us that 
the last prisoners put in the old one had dug 
holes in the wall and got out ; to further in- 
quiry our informant answered apologetically 
that he did n't think there were any prisoners 
in the jail now, but added, as though to vin- 
dicate the honour of the town, that they some- 
times had one. 
Baddeck is just as good and just as quiet 
to-day as it ever was, with the exception of 
its one flourishing store ; and that no doubt is 
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