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Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of "Evangeline" by Eliza B. (Eliza Brown) Chase
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One old tomb we were with this epitaph:--

"Tho' gready worm destroy my skin
And gnaw my wasting flesh
When God doth build my bones agen
He'll cloath them all afresh."

and another:--

"What says the silent dead
He bids me bear my load
With silent steps proceed
And follow him to God."

We notice that the English rule of the road maintains here, and our
driver turns to the left when other vehicles are approaching. Captain
C., who is from the States, tells us that he did not know of this
custom, and in his first drive nearly collided with another vehicle, the
driver of which thereupon used strong language. On being informed that
he had almost overturned the conveyance of the Governor of Prince
Edward's Island, the rash Yankee, undismayed, remarked, "Well, I don't
care who he is, he don't know how to drive!"




HALIFAX


Of course, as we are in the neighborhood, we must see the locality to
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