1897 - A Night in Acadie
One afternoon he took her out to the lake end. She had been there once, some
years before, but in winter, so the trip was comparatively new and strange to
her. The large expanse of water studded with pleasure-boats, the sight of
children playing merrily along the grassy palisades, the music, all enchanted
her.
Source: Documenting the American South
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