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Hotels.

one cannot say of Provincial inns, as did Sam Slick four score years ago, that a good one was no easier to find than "wool on a goat's back." The Yankee pedlar whom Judge Haliburton created to flay and spur the indolent Scotians would find himself comfortable at many a crossroads hotel in this day of bettered travelling facilities, and excellently housed in certain hostelries which have met the exacting demands of tourists.

The most pleasantly typical inns of this vacation land are those which embody in their simple, cosy rooms and their kitchen supervised by the housewife and her daughters the standards of American home life. One comes upon these modest guest-houses mayhap without anticipation, but leaves them oft-times with savoury memories of home-baked biscuits and well-seasoned game, of crusty pies and wild berries which far more pretentious ménus cannot efface.