44 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

No more perfect surf-bathing is to be found in all the world. Here during the mid— sumrner days one can come and escape the heat. The solitude of the place is almost

complete. The silence is broken only by the murmer of the unceasing sea. On the land the heated air may shimmer and tremble, but on the shore is a refreshing

coolness.

" There blow a thousand gentle airs, And each a different perfume bears.”

THREE MEN ON A RAFT

All the noisy notes of birds and insects, mellowed by distance, affect one slumber— ously. To lie down, stretched out luxuriously on the side 0f the sand-bank and to gaze idly over the dancing waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, is to be insensibly