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Title: An historical sketch of the Acadians, their deportation and wanderings, together with a consideration of the histotical basis for Longfellow'a poem Evangeline;
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bible, George P(otter), 1858- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Acadians
Publisher: Philadelphia, Ferris & Leach
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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brutal soldieryor by the pirates who infested the coast. The menand boys built dykes to shut out the turbulenttides, and reclaimed vast stretches of rich meadowland; they tilled the soil and gathered the harvests;wood was cut for the winter, and logs for the old-fashioned up-and-down saw of a single stroke.^The carpenter and blacksmith, the mason, the cob-^bier and the miller each in his way contributed to thewealth of the colony. The maiden, gowned in hermodest home-spun garments, assisted her mother inthe household duties, sewing, knitting, baking, scrub-bing, spinning, weaving, and performing a hundredother tasks that fall to the lot of women. In turnshe was shepherdess and milk-maid, and in summershe raked the meadows sweet with hay, but noproud judge ever rode by to disturb the maidensserenity. In the hay-making she was assisted bythe strong-limbed and light-hearted lads of her vil-lage, and many a friendly contest was entered intoby the young men in pitching hay, that the victor
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Their Deportation and Wanderings. 49 might win the approving smile or nod of the queenof the hay field. The old dinner bell that hung inthe forks of the tree, or swung between two uprightposts, pealed forth its welcome notes, calling thetoiler from hay-field or from harvest-field to a boun-tiful repast of fish, game and wild fruits. There was another bell, with a silvery tone, whichswung high in the tower of the church, that morning,noon and night called the faithful to prayer, as doesthe muezzin the Moslem. Down on his knees wentthe simple son of Acadia, and thus kneeling heoffered up a fervent prayer to the Master or an AveMaria to the Virgin. On Sunday the villagers andthe country people were early astir, and old andyoung alike attended church, lingering after the ser-vices to discuss crops and local affairs, or to inquireafter the health of the absent ones. The Acadian has been charged with being super-stitious and ignorant. Doubtless he was both,—^itwas a superstitious age; and

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