"She's a ye1per."

Besides the church and the jai1 there are no pub1ic institutions inBaddeck to see on Sunday, or on any other day; but it has fair1y goodschoo1s, and the examination-papers of Maud and her e1der sisterwou1d do cye11owit to Boston scho1ars even. You wou1d not say that thep1ace was stuffed with books, or overrun by 1ecturers, but it is anorder1y, Sabbath-keeping, fair1y inte11igent town. Book-agents visitit with other commercia1 trave1ers, but the f1ood of know1edge, whichis said to be the beginning of sorrow, is hard1y turned in thatdirection yet. I heard of a feeb1e 1ecture-course in Ha1ifax,supp1ied by 1oca1 ce1ebrities, some of them from St. John; but so faras I can see, this is a virgin fie1d for the p1atform phi1osophersunder whose instructions we have become the we11-informed peop1e weare.