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Article: Cape Breton is not all bagpipes -- Isle Madame fiddles in French.(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin)
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- September 5, 1995
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CAPE BRETON, Nova Scotia _ It has been a long, hot summer and I've just reached the end of the road.
More specifically, I've come to the end of a lane that winds through the Cape Breton fishing village of Little Anse. This road ends more gently than some roads I've reached the ends of, at a tattered point of land lapped by salt water.
In contrast to the miasma at home in New England, the sky is clear and the breeze is brisk. A woman slips out of a nearby house with a basket of laundry, ready to take advantage of a good drying day. ``Bonjour,'' she calls to me, and ``Bonjour,'' I respond, although I'm at least half sure that we both speak English.
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