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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: various
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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me atroop of men and women from theirhay field; none of them spoke to usat first, but after we had addressedthem a few words, the father amongthem became more sociable, and healso asked us to dine. Still anothergroup gave us an invitation, and atlast we accepted it. Here was ourfirst evidence of the Cape Breton hos-pitality we had missed the previousevening; here people came seekingon the highway who might devour.The men sat down first, and the wo-men served us with bannocks andsour milk, potatoes and boiled saltmackerel, bread and butter. It wasone of the best meals of our trip; fornine times out of ten we were givenonly the staple articles of diet—bread,butter, and bitter tea. The peoplespoke Gaelic to one another, and wegot no hint of their talk; but the quietand kindly spirit of the family sufficed toput us at ease. After dinner we draggedwearily onward, still toward Smoky, un-til at sundown we gladly entered a poormans hut for the night. It was full ofVol. LXXIL—No. 430.—43
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THE FERRYMAN. occupied by the children. The x)oor arealways friendly with nature; the littlepig regarded himself as one of the family ;and whenever the woman went to getsome milk from the pan kept in the bot-tom of the cupboard, there was a race 610 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. between her, the pig squealing, and thehen with eager neck; the woman gen-erally reached the door first, and then,with much sliuffling, just managed tofence the others out with her legs, whilethey bobbed in and out under her skirts.From this excitement the pig would walkover to the hearth, and such was thecomfort he took in the warmth of tlie firethat he would doze before he had time tolie down, and thus frequently fell asleepsupported awhile on four legs and hisnose. I noted his habits, because the pigis sometimes a member of the householdhere in regard to bed and board. A minis-ter at a wedding remained all niglit, andwas given a low cot bed in the living-room. In the night he was startled atfinding some one

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