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France during some years past. another fact which will prove my assertion Acadians with whom I have converse: have made this remark to me: ‘*We under stand you much better than other French men who have cme here. “It is very simple,” I say to them; ‘‘those people spoke to you, doubtless, Auvergnal while Iclaim to speak pure French, and 1 am pleased that you understand me.” Ii must not be assumed, huwever, that as genuine French is spoken here as upon | boulevard des LItalennes. It is sven re- markable that a handful of families, en- closed in an English population, have bee: able so long to retain their own language The Engitsh language obtrudes_ itsel! furcibly, and all the Acadians of the Island speak it readily—-it is the language of the vut-door world, the language of business ; the French is the language of the fireside, of the family circle, and of intimacy. The two languages become interm:xed at times in a singuiar manner. Certain Frerch words have been lost and have been re- placed by their equivalents in English. Others, expressing an idea or matter es- sentially English, have passed into French; in short, a number of English verbs are met with in French with a French termin- ation, as for instance, j’ai watche ce boat—
: | have watched the boat.
In the old French or patois, which is in- termixed with the Acadian dialect, I have recognized a number of words which are familiar to me, and which I have heard in
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ple to famine. Public prayers were offer- ed up, and the mice were seen,it appears, to ran to the sea like a disordered army and to precipitate themselves there in a body. After that the mice entirely disappeared, aud the plague ceased forever. The same thing, it seems, occurred at Tignish, at the northwest extremity of the Isiand. But there grasshoppers took the place of mice. This would be a little more credible. How- ever, let us accept the legend for what it is worth, rather than to seck to verify it. These facts and others are recorded in relations of very interesting travels over which I have cast my eyes, thauks to the courtesy of Judge Alley, of Charlottetown, who has obtained from France a large num- ber of copies of valuable documents relut- ing to the earliest period of Prince Ed- ward Isiand’s history under French occu- pation. [| have read at his house auto- graph letters of Pere de Calonne, brother of the miuvister of Louis XVI, and at that
time Cure of Rustico, This priest was not the only exalted personage whom - Rustico bas had _the at-.
vantage of possessing. I have been told that a young man:f a very distinguished family in Francs came fv Rustico, probably at the time of the Revolvtion, ana married a native of thecountry. At the restoration, doubtless, he returned to France, where he lived iu lord-like style. He and his wife died without direct descendants. The collateral heirs are still in Rustico—they have taken proceedings, but too late. The case is also cited of a Frenchman who died in the Mississippi, Jeaving a considerable fortune, which his impoverished heirs in Rustico have not known how to recover. This is a little of the history of all parts of Americs. What heritages have thus been lost because of distance, difficulties of com- munication, false fxith of agents, or through the ignorance aud carelessness of those interested.
To return to the chapter of popular superstitions. IL have been surprised to find go little here. I will cite one, en pas- sant, which is very innocent. Before re- tiring, the young girls eat a salt herring, with the hops that thirst will cause them to dream that the young man they are destined to marry will offer them a glass of water. As elsewhere, care is taken not to upset the salt cellar orto tread upon the cat’a tail; but in the main, little import- ance is attached to these things. In my character as a Frenchman, I could not help noting here some observations which I propose to record.
The Acadian is not a hunter. In most houses a gun is not to be found. Still, in autumn good game is not wanting: ducks, wild geese, brant and, throughout the win- ter, delicious partridges. There are here, | believe, several kinds of edible mush- rooms. At least | have seen upon the sides of the roads and in meadows de belles bru- nettes, which no one touches and which perish standing. Crabs and musseis can grow and thrive in peace; they are, it seems, too poor a meal. Clams (les palour- des) are, on the contrary, much sought after. They are procured, at low tide with the aid of a shovel, out of the shore where they lie buried. ! will not speak of frogs. This dish, so much appreciated by refined tastes in large American cities, gives rise here to a smile of distrast and incredulity.
Since we are upon the cuisine, I will add that the Acadian is of great frugality. The home-made bread, which is not baked in large batches but in smail quantities in a little oven adapted to the cooking stove, is of great whiteness. The butter made by the good wives is excellent, and, as amongst tne English, forms a large part of the daily food. The women excel in making pastry and cakes of all kinds. Fruit is rare, apart from strawberries, wild raspberries and blueberries.
Will I speak to you of the Acadian dialect? It is exceedingly soft in general, particularly in the mouths of the women, and iu singular contrast with the somewhat rude and at times stammering accent of cer- tain Canadians whom I have heard. Mark well that I am not of those who claim, or who would wisk to convey the belief that in Canada French is not so well spoken as in France. No. I will even admit that in Canada French is better spoken than in France, taking the country as a whoie, in this sense that a Frenchman can travel thr ushout Canada and everywhere under- stand what is said to him, while in France he will understaud nothing of certain patois or dialects almost extinct, such as the Pro-
the patois saiutougeais, One thing - struck me at the outset, the asperate pronuncia- tion of g as in Saintouge. I have recog nized at once as old acquaintances, l’egail for la rosee (ihe dew), la goule for la bouche (the mouth), is mare for la mer (the sea), le bouiile for le bois (the wood), le milau for le milieu (the middle). When anyone ssid to me, “*J’ savant emoye de
be
vous,” I understood that he had been inquiring of me. When anyone said to me, ‘*Huchez douc,” I _hal-
loed with all the strength of my lungs. The children braiileut (squall) they do not cry (pleurent) but it is none the more ag- reeable on that account. It neyor rains here (pluut) but it wets (mouille) at times which compensates for it. People wear neither vetemenis nor habits, but hardes (different words for clothing.) The pecheurs (fish- ermen) become pecheux, but they catch no more fish on that account, and the swains (font un bec) give a kiss to their sweet- hearts instead of expressing as in English that they kiss them, jwre aud simple.
That is 2\-nyt all; corruptions of French sre hot so common in the Acadian dialect asin our own patois for example dau for du afor au. ‘The Acadian says very correctly, da pain and not dau pain, au oiseau and not in osia. The termination of the three persons plural sound aut, the pro- noun je takes the place’ of nous frequently, j'avons for nous avons. The past definite of the four conjugations end in és indistinctly, je mangis je finis, je recevis, je rendis— added to this, many terms of navigation are used, They make tast (amarre) a horse or their shoes, they go on board (embarque) in acarriage. Madamoiselle Euxodie rigs her- self (se gree) just like a sloop of war to go to a ball her drole (escort) does not unmoor (demarre) himself from her side all evening, he pilots (pilot) her to the ball, and the men fire at times a volley (tirent une bordee) which means they have a good time, They haul (haler a nautical term) wood to the house, etc.
When I say that the Saintougeais dialect is found in the Acadian tongue this is not to be wondered at, for the history of Acadia establishes that a good number of the French emigrants to Acadia were natives of Saint- onge or of Rochelle and of the Isle of Re. Let us cite as well as my memory serves me, Champlain, born at Brouage, who I believe passed a number of years in Acadie before going to Canada. The people of Acadie had for along period derived their supplies from the merchants and traders of La Rochelle, one of whom organized several expeditions and actually governed that country.
Rameau says in his history of Acadia that the Abooiteaux ot the valley of Port Royal and Grand Pre were made at the suggestion of natives of the Isle of Re who had learned in their own country thus to battle with the sea for the posession of their fertile fields. There are Acadian names which repeat them- selves frequently in Saintonge. Without going further the name of Poirier (Perry) for example, which is that of my mother, is common in Saintouge, my native place, and I would not be surprised to find on this side of the Atlantic relations-—a little distant it is true. However that may be my dear cousins, near or remote, I am delighted to make your acquaintance, and we will have chat again of you and of Acadia.
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