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Show The Gentleman Habitant. The habitant of Lower Canada ennie hablter le pays (tn Inhabit the land), and he was true to his title. No transient tran-sient dweller he. Nor did the splrl' of noblesse oblige that he brought from the Old World easily die. Long after 'H7. writes Mcdumcs Llznrs In their Interesting book. II n mors of '37, a court dignitary found himself In a remote neighborhood where there were no tavern aceoino datlons. Arrangements were made fn him to stay at the unpretentious hoim of it small farmer When the dlgnlniry affixed, the ha!1 door, opened wide In welcome, dw closed nn old man In antique Jacket smallclothes and buckles, whose fliw white hair, lying on his collar. :i-stlrred :i-stlrred by Hie night breeze. The dink hallway made a dim background for the old man mid his ancient sllvc candlesticks, us, with a light In eac'. hand, he bowed profoundly, walking backward ns his guest entered. The guest remonstrated at the hi tentlon so shown hlm. "Kir," sulci the old man courteously In refined French. "I hut follow the customs of my fathers." |