T.—What is the next way they might think of?
P.—The next shortest way so as to keep in Canada.
T.—Where would that be? (Pupil comes up and tells from the map.)
P.—From Quebec city through Quebec, along the edge of Maine, into New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
T.—Would they take that way?
P.—No, because it is too near the border of the United States.
T.—Why do you say "too near"?
P.—If there was war, soldiers from the United States might come over and wreck the railway. They might dynamite the bridges or tear up the rails.
T.—As a matter of fact, they did not take that way. What route could be taken to prevent any trouble of that kind?
P.—They would stay as far from the border as possible.