[Following the Equator by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookFollowing the Equator CHAPTER XIX 10/14
The holidays there are frequent enough to be bewildering to the stranger.
I tried to get the hang of the system, but was not able to do it. You have seen that the Province is tolerant, religious-wise.
It is so politically, also.
One of the speakers at the Commemoration banquet--the Minister of Public Works-was an American, born and reared in New England. There is nothing narrow about the Province, politically, or in any other way that I know of.
Sixty-four religions and a Yankee cabinet minister. No amount of horse-racing can damn this community. The mean temperature of the Province is 62 deg.
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