“‘The principal officer of customs and principal part of his deputies?’
“‘English.’
“‘The commissariat and the staff?’
“‘English to a man.’
“‘The dockyard people?’
“‘English.’
“‘The postmaster giniral?’
“‘English.’
“‘What, English?’ sais you, and look all surprise, as if you didn’t know. ‘I thought he was a colonist, seein’ the province pays so much for the mails.’
“‘No,’ he’ll say, ‘not now; we have jist sent an English one over, for we find it’s a good thing that.’