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194 grey as a rabbit until December and then turn ermine white, are worth 25 cents to a dollar, according to fashion's demand.

The trapper's cottage where one sits in a tiny bright-rugged room and hears all this, is a mile down the road from the village. On the same spot formerly stood the station of the post carrier who made the winter journey from Halifax to Lunenburg on snow-shoes.

, 35 m. On the way is the beautiful but little exploited retreat called St. Margaret's, and the station from which a stage leaves every week day for French Village and Peggy's Cove.