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Newfoundlanders were too busy fishing in home waters, though some of them did ship to go foreign and others sailed their catch to market. Quebeckers built ships, but rarely sailed them; while the Pacific coast had no shipping to speak of. Thus the Bluenoses had the field pretty well to themselves.
Now these Bluenoses have no motion in 'em, no enterprise, no spirit, and if any critter shows any symptoms of activity, they say he is a man of no judgment, he's speculative, he's a schemer, in short he's mad. They vegitate like a lettuce plant in sarse garden, they grow tall and, spindlin', run to seed right off, grow as bitter as gaul and die."
If that Eagle is represented as trying what he can't do, it's an honourable ambition arter all, but these Bluenoses won't try what they can do.
"It's a most curious, unaccountable thing, but it's a fact," said the Clockmaker, "the Bluenoses are so conceited, they think they know everything; and yet there ain't a livin' soul in Nova Scotia knows his own business real complete, farmer or fisherman, lawyer or doctor, or any other folk. A farmer said to me one day, up to Pugnose's inn at River Philip, 'Mr.
Well that's apt to be the case with them as choose their wives in sleighin' parties, quiltin' frolics, and so on; instead of the dairies, looms, and cheese-houses. "Now the Bluenoses are all a-stirrin' in winter. The young folks drive out the gals, and talk love and all sorts of things as sweet as doughnuts.
A man's life and property are well protected here at little cost, and he can go where he likes and do what he likes provided he don't trespass on his neighbour. "I guess that's enough for any on us, now ain't it?" No. Gulling a Bluenose. "I allot," said Mr. Slick, "that the Bluenoses are the most gullible folks on the face of the airth rigular soft horns, that's a fact.
I heerd an Indian one day ax a tavern-keeper for some rum. 'Why, Joe Spawdeeck, said he, 'I reckon you have got too much already. 'Too much of anything, said Joe, 'is not good; but too much rum is jist enough. I guess these Bluenoses think so about their horses; they are fairly eat up by them, out of house and home, and they are no good neither.
Says they, 'Master Enoch Slick, he upsides with Missus this hitch anyhow. Uncle never heerd anything more of 'Oh Lord Missus' arter that Yes, they ought to be shamed out of it, those Bluenoses. When reason fails to convince, there is nothin' left but ridicule. If they have no ambition, apply to their feelings, slap a blister on their pride, and it will do the business.
Slick's Opinion of the British. "What success had you," said I, "in the sale of your clocks among the Scotch in the eastern part of the Province? Do you find them as gullible as the Bluenoses?" "Well," said he, "you have heerd tell that a Yankee never answers one question, without axing another, haven't you?
His pay was a fixed number of cents per folio, not dollars, nor pounds. When I went back to gaol I found it deserted. Wilkins had sold his farm and disappeared. His wife remained in the hut. Sheriff Cunningham was still away among the Bluenoses, and Silas was 'functus officio', having accomplished a general gaol delivery.
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