Some made a lot of money, no doubt of that, especially those families with plenty of daughters; but now it is different and they are not going as once they did ...

So you are selling the farm ?" "Yes, there has been some talk with three Frenchmen who came to Mistook last month.

I expect we shall make a bargain." "And are there many Canadians where you are living?
Do the people speak French ?" "At the place I went to first, in the State of Maine, there were more Canadians than Americans or Irish; everyone spoke French; but where I live now, in the State of Massachusetts, there are not so many families however; we call on one another in the evenings." "Samuel once thought of going West," said Madame Chapdelaine, "but I was never willing.

Among people speaking nothing but English I should have been unhappy all the rest of my days.

I used to say to him-'Samuel, we Canadians are always better off among Canadians.'" When the French Canadian speaks of himself it is invariably and simply as a "Canadian"; whereas for all the other races that followed in his footsteps, and peopled the country across to the Pacific, he keeps the name of origin: English, Irish, Polish, Russian; never admitting for a moment that the children of these, albeit born in the country, have an equal title to be called "Canadians." Quite naturally, and without thought of offending, he appropriates the name won in the heroic days of his forefathers.
"And is it a large town where you are ?" "Ninety thousand," said Lorenzo with a little affectation of modesty.
"Ninety thousand! Bigger than Quebec!" "Yes, and we are only an hour by train from Boston.