Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — “Me Scare!" [ARTICLE]

“Me Scare!"

Some of the uninitiated Canadians bring with them into Maine a lively apprehension of personal peril. Being strangers in a new land makes them nervous, perhaps. A Somerset County farmer who lives well up on a hillside tells a story of his hiring through an interpreter a Canadian who could speak no English to work for him. The farmer is rather a large, stern-looking man, and just after the Frenchman arrived at his house he stepped into the pantry and came out with a largo butcher knife in his hand whetting it on a sharpener, as a preparation for cutting some meat for supper. He at the same time, began to make some talk in English to the Gaul, whose eyes opened wider and wider in alarm as he watched the whetting of tho knife. He evidently thought murder was intended, for. as the farmer came nearer him, ho bolted Out of doors like a deer and ran across the fields rind down the hillsides. His only answer, as the farmer ran after hlib, endeavoring to call him back, was, “Mo scare! Me scare!" The employer had to go to town and have matters explained by an interpreter before he could induce the Frenchman to return. —Lewiston Journal.