Very little ambition or avarice was to be seen among them; they anticipated each other's wants by kindly liberality; they demanded no interest for loans of money or other property.
They were humane and hospitable to strangers, and very liberal toward those who embraced their religion.

They were very remarkable for their inviolable purity of morals.

If any disputes arose in their transactions, they always submitted to the decision of an arbitrator, and their final appeal was to their priest."-- _Moses de les Derniers_.
"Young men were not encouraged to marry unless the young girl could weave a piece of cloth, and the young man make a pair of wheels.

These accomplishments were deemed essential for their marriage settlement, and they hardly needed anything else; for every time there was a wedding the whole village contributed to set up the newly married couple.

They built a house for them, and cleared enough land for their immediate needs; they gave them live stock and poultry; and nature, seconded by their own labor, soon put them in a position to help others."-- _Brook Watson_.
[Illustration: Village of Grand Pre.