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We supply the above at one cent each, if twenty or more are ordered.  They may be assorted, as desired.

NOTES.

PART ONE.

I

1.  A primeval forest is one which has not been disturbed by the axe.

3.  Druids were Celtic priests.  Their religious ceremonies were carried on in oak groves, the trees being regarded as sacred.

10.  Grand pre (graen-pr[=a]) means large meadow.

20.  Basin of Minas, an arm of the Bay of Fundy.

25.  The tides in the Bay of Fundy rise to the height of 60 feet.  What is the ordinary rise of the tide?

29.  Blomidon is a promontory about four hundred feet high at the entrance of the Bay of Minas.

33.  The Henries were rulers of France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

34.  Normandy, a district in northern France bordering on the English channel.

39.  Kirtle, a petticoat.

49.  The Angelus was a bell which called people to prayer.  What do you know of the painting called “The Angelus?”

57.  Real misery was wholly unknown, and benevolence anticipated the demands of poverty.  Every misfortune was relieved, as it were, before it could be felt, without ostentation on the one hand and without meanness on the other.  It was in short, a society of brethren.  Abbe REYNAL.

72.  Hyssop, a plant.  A branch of it could be used like a sponge.  It was a symbol of purification from sin.

74.  Chaplet of beads, a string of beads used in praying.  Missal, a prayer book.

96.  See Luke XXII, 60, 61.

111.  A Patron saint was a Saint who was supposed to exercise a special care over the people of a town or district.

115.  Lajeunesse (lae-zhe-n[)e]s’).

144.  There was a saying among the people that “If the sun shines on St. Eulalie’s day there will be a good crop of apples.”  It was February 12th.

II.

149.  The scorpion is one of the twelve signs of the zodiac.  The sun enters this sign in late October.

153.  For the reference to Jacob, see Gen. XXXII, 24-30.

159.  The summer of all-saints corresponds to our Indian Summer.  All-Saints day is Nov. 1st.

170.  Plane tree, a species of sycamore.  Xerxes, a Persian, admired one of them so much he put a mantle upon it and adorned it with jewels.

209.  Burgundy is a section of eastern France famous for its fine wines.

238.  The Gaspereau is a river that flows into the Basin of Minas, east of Grand Pre.