The Land of Evangeline: The Authentic Story of Her Country and Her People / With Evangeline by H. W. Longfellow

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Land of Evangeline, by John Frederic Herbin
The authentic story of her country and her people
By John F. Herbin
Illustrated in color and black and white.
With Evangeline By H. W. Longfellow
TORONTO THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY LIMITED
Copyright, Canada, 1921 THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY. LTD. PUBLISHERSTORONTO
Third Edition 10th Thousand
Musson ALL CANADIAN PRODUCTION

Evangeline’s Well
Evangeline’s Land is romantic and beautiful at any time, but in apple-blossom time it is adorable; a riot of blossom everywhere, of purest white, cream and shell pink, and, in the midst of it all in a little hollow or dip in the road one comes upon the tiny village of Grand Pré—straggling down a gentle slope to the basin of Minas. In the Spring the village is almost buried in blossom, and so peaceful now, tho’ the scene of so much sorrow and tragedy in the past, of which one is reminded by Evangeline’s Well, and an old stone cross, which marks the site where the village once stood. A picturesque row of ancient willows, planted by the Acadians, helps to bring back the pathos and tragedy of that time even now.