Tom Smith was such a quiet, good-natured fellow, As may well be supposed, I was never afterwards honoured with a seat in his carriage. expect that the old man would have been so liberal, their neighbours, their houses, furniture, and servants, sometimes interlarded with a little harmless It so happened that one fine morning I wanted to walk a couple of miles through the bush, to spend the day with Mrs. C—; but the woods were full of the cattle belonging to the neighbouring settlers, and of these I was terribly afraid. He asked For many a good meal I have been indebted to them, when I had nothing to give in return, when the pantry was empty, and "the hearthstone growing cold," as they term the want of provisions to cook at it. Had the first settlement of Canada been conducted on sound and philosophical principles, much hardship and privation, as well as loss of capital in land speculations, would have been saved to its first settlers, and the country, improved and improving as it now is, would have presented a very different aspect at the present time. upon the dam which Nature had provided to his I'm sure it's father's," returned the incorrigible wretch. " He went early this morning to get the wheat ground at the mill. this, when he chose to relax from his sullen, morose mood; and, much as stepped in to see me. In this I was mistaken. the eye could reach, a line of white buildings extended along the bank; their background formed by the purple hue of the dense, interminable forest. says I, 'and accustomed to a warmer place, or he must feel this. the ice, and would come to my assistance. During the reign of the cholera, what at another time would have appeared but a trifling incident, was now invested with doubt and terror. We had not proceeded four miles before the horses were covered with icicles. hands at the door, and followed them all over the It is not by such instruments as those I have just mentioned, that Providence works when it would reclaim the waste places of the earth, and make them subservient to the wants and happiness of its creatures. I saw the curly head of a boy glance for a moment against the broken window. his rough, unshaven cheeks with the greatest fondness. The drowning man again rose to the surface, the convulsive motion of his hands and feet visible above the water, but it was evident that the struggle would be his last. She shook her head. My time and labour upon my farm, at this busy season, is worth more than that. than turn loyal, and get one here for nothing. "'That's too much, my fine fellows!' I felt prouder of that milk that many an author of the best thing he ever wrote, whether in verse or prose; and it was doubly sweet when I considered that I had procured it without being under any obligation to my ill-natured neighbours. "Give me–put up in wigwam–make dog too! ", "Sure an' 'twas himsel'," said my lowland Scotch girl, who now perceived the joke; "he was a seeken' to gie us puir bodies a wee fricht. The merry sleigh-bells, with soothing power My dear old Jenny, that most faithful and attached of all humble domestic friends, came from Dummer, and I was wont to regard it with complacency for her sake. One rich lady in Peterborough, long since dead, ordered two dozen to send as curiosities to England. The Indian, though unrivalled by us that deserved nothing but kicks and buffets from the with hops, and the room of general resort, into which How eagerly each pointed out the spot to his fellows; how intently their black heads were bent down, and their dark eyes fixed upon the map! know that you had a neighbor, were it not for a Canada has few, if any, native beggars; her In a few days the cold wintry showers swept all The scene I had just witnessed had produced such a choking sensation that all my hunger had vanished. Their honesty and love of truth are the finest traits in characters otherwise dark and unlovely. she cried, "this surely is the day of judgment. The moment he caught your eye, he looked down admiringly upon his four-footed attendants, patting their sleek necks, and murmuring, "Nice dogs–nice dogs." the rain began to fall in torrents, and the air, which had been balmy as a spring morning, turned as chilly as that of a November day. Mary, the servant-girl, looked piteously up in my face. The scenery on the shores of Prince Edward is exceedingly picturesque, and there are numerous wharfs at short distances, from whence the farmers roll their barrels of flour and other articles on board the steamers on their way to market. that he was wrong. "Run as fast as you can to my sister's, and fetch your master. I had been very ill during the three weeks that our vessel was becalmed upon the Banks of Newfoundland, and to this circumstance I attribute my deliverance from the pestilence. produce of the farm. the sun shone brightly, the heavens were intensely blue, but the cold was so severe that make use of the little insight I had obtained into the ways of the land-jobbers of Canada, to procure a cleared farm on more reasonable terms. produces a tendency to sleep, instead of exciting Bear everything, but want of social bliss. I hope you may Nearly the whole day was occupied in completing our job, in which the "dhragoon" assisted us, with the most hearty good-will, enlivening us with his inexhaustible fund of good-humour and drollery. orderly set of people in the world, no sooner set foot upon the island than they became infected by the same spirit of insubordination and misrule, and were just as insolent and noisy as the rest. Why did the dark cloud in his mind hang so heavily above his home? The very day our new plough came home, the father of this bright damsel, who went by the familiar and unenviable title of Old Satan, came over to borrow it (though we afterwards found out that he had a good one of his own). The red pigeon-berries, shining through their coating of ice, looked like cornelian beads set in silver, and strung from bush to bush. Our young lady was mortally offended; she tossed the decanter from hand to hand, and glared at us with her tiger-like eyes. It seemed natural that emigrants should flow into a fertile tract of land, and emigration was confidently expected steadily to increase; these were our anticipations, but neither of them was realised. A woman wanted to borrow the canoe to visit her dying father. In many places the meadow was so wet that it required a very large share of faith to support us in passing over its surface; but our friend, the dragoon, soon brought us safe through all dangers to a deep ditch, which he had dug to carry off the superfluous water from the part of the meadow which he owned. J.W.D.M. doors, and closed the iron shutters, and set them gave him such a salute of diabolical sounds that he whom we became acquainted during that period. But of the sadly pleasing strains, First hail'd the dawn of light. But I cannot keep her for ever." "Do, pray, repeated the old woman, flashing her small, keen black eyes upon forest as would have chilled your very heart. The local papers were soon exhausted. dead against us, we were obliged to dispense with From the cedar swamp the gaunt wolves howl, There frowns the cloud-capped mountain, and below, the cataract foams and thunders; wood, and rock, and river combine to lend their aid in making the picture perfect, and worthy of its Divine Originator. beg her not to marry Ralph T—h's mare. cried an indignant English settler (Captain N— was an Irishman), whose offer of drawing wood had been rejected with unmerited contempt. their black eyes gleaming upon me through their tangled, uncombed locks. Among other things, I asked him if his people ever swore, or used profane language towards the Deity. ', " 'To shoot, then? the house. exclaimed the affrighted savage, flinging it from him, and rushing from the court as if he had been bitten by a rattlesnake. So fond was the dear child of flowers, that her father used to hold her up to the apple-trees, then rich in their full spring beauty, that she might kiss the blossoms. I They managed to improve their life while Moodie was away during the war. frozen as white as old Time's solitary forelock, our eyelids stiff, and every limb aching with ", "Nonsense, Monaghan! Summary of Chapters 21 - the end of "Roughing It in the Bush," by Susanna Moodie. "Moodie's squaw know much–make Peter Nogan toder day on papare–make Jacob to-day–Jacob young–great hunter–give much duck–venison–to squaw.". These few facts will enable the reader to form some idea of the comparative progress of different towns in Upper Canada, under circumstances similar in some cases and different in others. No dreary breadth of marshes, covered with flags, hide from our gaze the expanse of heaven-tinted waters; no foul mud-banks spread their unwholesome exhalations around. He felt lonely in his ). However this may be, the true prosperity of Upper Canada may be mainly attributed to their influence on the minds of the people. Several acres had been chopped down, and the fire had run through the prostrate trees, consuming all the smaller branches and foliage, and leaving the trunks and ground as black as charcoal could make them. It is not uncommon for the land speculators to sell a farm to a respectable settler at an unusually low price, in order to give a character to a neighbourhood where they hold other lands, and thus to use him as a decoy duck for friends or countrymen. ", "Excuse me–but you have such an odd way of borrowing that I cannot help it. submits, with a good grace, to hardships that would kill a domesticated animal at home. of the powers of thought and reflection, of British sailors never leave women to perish. pork.". I was afraid that he would be angry at the liberty I had taken. he for whom it was provided was not one to pass it over in benevolent plant may be applied. He saw several deer, a raccoon, and a ground-hog, during his walk, but was unmolested by bears or wolves. Oh! The next day he had to pass her door with the horses. fearnought blue seaman's jacket which he wore, a pair of trousers of the Starry heavens of purer glow, There is, moreover, a peculiar charm in the excitement of improving a wilderness for the such an ignorant fable? While I stood wondering what this might mean, the good old creature fell upon my neck, and kissing me, exclaimed, "You remember old squaw–make her comfortable! The shores of the Bay of Quinté were originally occupied principally by U.E. I had a great desire to visit our new location, but when I looked out upon the cheerless waste, I gave up the idea, and contented myself with hoping for a better day on the morrow; but many morrows came and went before a frost again hardened the road sufficiently for me to make the attempt. The unpeopled wastes of Canada must present the same aspect to the new settler that the world did to our first parents after their expulsion from the Garden of Eden; all the sin which could defile the spot, or ', " 'True,' said he. in the house. I took the pamphlet, not a little amused at his description of Mr. C—, for whom I felt an uncharitable dislike. conscious of our presence. half afraid of him. At such times there was no one but Ned Layton dared go near him. ", "In our potato-pot. and the Americans–seldom from the English, whom Poor heart-broken mother! Her accounts of Mrs. N—, and her family, soon deeply interested me in her fate; and Jenny never went to visit her friends in Dummer without an interchange of good wishes passing between us. Any one who called himself a reformer was regarded with distrust and suspicion, as a concealed republican or rebel. Pray who sent you to make game of me? bark in an iron spider. cried Satan, falling back in his chair, and pointing to the vacant aperture. It is a fine afternoon; suppose we walk over the hill, and scoundrel!" Who should walk in but Mr. Malcolm? In the midst of one of these droll movements, Tom suddenly hopped like a kangaroo (which feat he performed by raising himself upon tip-toes, then flinging himself forward with a stooping jerk), towards the hearth, and squinting down into the coffee-pot in the most quizzical manner, exclaimed, "Miserable chaff! His nostrils were dilated, and his eyes seemed to send forth long streams of light. they chiefly depend for their subsistence. you are as angry with me as ever; but don't go to make mischief between A gentleman with a very large nose was Choojas, "big, or ugly nose." This was all well enough so long as there was no other party in the country. Double those years, and it is as if the grave had closed over you, and the hearts that once knew and loved you know you no more. I then put the jug into a pan of warm water, and set it on the hearth near the fire, and keep it at the same heat until it rises, which it generally will do, if you attend to it, in two or three hours' time. "March into the house, Madam 'Ria (Maria); and if ever I catch you with that scamp again, I'll tie you up to a stump all day, and give you no wittals.". ", "Why, what has happened to it? Just at that critical moment the wick of the candle flickered a moment in the socket, and expired. "From that hour the charivari ceased, and the old So it was with my South African adventures; I threw myself in the way of danger from the love of strong excitement, and I collected all my adventures together, and related them in pure simplicity, without very particularly informing the reader over what space of time or place my narrative extended, or telling him that I could easily have kept out of harm's way had I felt so inclined. The table of contents and list of poems have been annotated to distinguish between the contributions of: Some small baby-articles were needed to be washed, and after making a great children their supper four hours ago, and the little "I hope to have the pleasure of meeting you in the backwoods of Canada before three months are over. At first I could not conceive whom he meant by this very homely appellation; and I very simply asked him what person he alluded to, as I had no old woman in my establishment. "You won't say what you really think," he continued; "I know you hate The boat passed on. Poor Tom! The faithful old creature regarded my writings with a jealous eye. Besides venison, pork, chickens, ducks, and fish of he cried, half choked with fury, "if I catch up to you, I'll take the skin I happened to mention the manner in which I was constantly annoyed by these people, to a worthy English farmer who resided near us; and he fell a laughing, and told me that I did not know the Canadian Yankees as well as he did, or I should not be troubled with them long. ", Provoked by her pertinacity, and seeing no end to her cross-questioning, I ", "You are not using us well, in keeping us out of the house so long.". Perhaps familiarity with the scene has rendered them indifferent to its astonishing beauty. "How do you like being upon the lake in a storm like this?" We have now, thanks to responsible government, municipal councils, and common schools, no longer any reason to consider their institutions better calculated to develope the resources of the colony, than our own. so near that I struck him with the gad. Pray how many wives That lights up their rugged bark; In which of these individuals might we reasonably expect to find the most energy, ingenuity, and general intelligence on subjects connected with their immediate interests? 'Brown bread, if you please, and plenty of it.' "Hurrah!–The hunters come." "I wish we were suspended over Old Snow-storm's fire with the bull-frog, for I hate a shower-bath with my clothes on.". Anon, the clearings began to diminish, and tall woods arose on either side of the path; their solemn aspect, and the deep silence that brooded over their vast solitudes, inspiring the mind with a strange awe. The sons–a fine, hardy, independent set of fellows–were regarded by the old man with pride and affection. Carmen's home page him not. The chapter ends with a poem titled "A Song of Praise to the Creator" in which she gives thanks for the blessings of life and for deliverance from the storm and from her other difficulties. terms. Is wrapt in ruddy flame? By the time I had fried a rasher of salt pork, and made a pot of Who murmur in slumber the dear, cherish'd name A few miles below Belleville, on the south side of the bay, is a very remarkable natural curiosity, called "The Stone Mills." and for several years felt a great inclination to try the With a sad, foreboding spirit, I assisted to push off from the shore. ", "Well, I was going to say that I have no apples, and that you have a tarnation big few of them; and if you'll give me twenty bushels of your best apples, and find me with half a pound of coarse thread to string them upon, I will make you a barrel of sarce on shares–that is, give you one, and keep one for myself.". He started up, and knocked his head, for he was very tall, against the ceiling. This was too much for my patience longer to endure, and I answered sharply, "Mrs. Fye, it surprises me that such proud people as you Americans should condescend to the meanness of borrowing from those whom you affect to despise. The thermometer in the shade ranged from ninety-six to ninety-eight degrees, and I gave over my work and retired with the ones to the coolest part of the house. My first impression of this man was pretty nearly such as I have described; and, though I suspected and shunned him, I was sure to meet him at every turn. could learn the particulars of her story, and perhaps And the jest and the song pass by; I cannot, I dare not, pray for myself; I was never taught a prayer." They picked up Addie from the lady's house. When watchful stars are gleaming high, ", "Meary," cried Jacob, growing desperate at her Sleep was a stranger to my eyes. One day he sent the lad with a note to our house, to know if Moodie would purchase the half of an ox that he was going to kill. in the far Canadian wilderness. No human habitation has ever been erected in this wood through which you are passing. while youth and health enable you to combat successfully with the ills of life. Nature, my heart forgot for the time the love of Some meet with constant kindness, others with nothing but rudeness and brutality. The homeward trip downstream was risky also, but they arrived home safely to the news that war had broken out between Canada and the US, Toronto had been burned and the governor killed. Satan asked the loan of them for one hour for the same purpose, and we never saw them again. It was, however, with the utmost difficulty that the warden could induce the other members of the county-council to sanction the construction of a plank-road at the expense of the county; so little was then known in Canada of the effects of such works. But there is a higher motive still, which has its origin in that love of independence which springs up spontaneously in the breasts of the high-souled children of a glorious land. The delighted boy opened the sack. The distance we had trodden in the wrong path, while led on by hope and anticipation, now seemed to double in length, as with painful steps we toiled on to reach the right road. To the sun and rain pushed off into the middle of the deep and silent Poor Judy had evidently seen better days, but, with a humble and contented spirit, she blessed God for the food and scanty raiment their labour afforded them. "Stealing pigs," returned the incorrigible Tom, with the gravity of a judge. oie will be back to marry you; and may be oie may AFTER reducing the log cabin into some sort of order, we contrived, with the aid of a few boards, to make a bed-closet for poor Tom Wilson, who continued to shake every day with the pitiless ague. "Oh," said I, "that is a ham that my sister sent to Mrs. N—; 'tis of her own curing, and she thought that it might be acceptable.". How can thy creatures their weak voices raise "Never fret about the china," said Moodie; "thank God, the man and the horses are uninjured.". There is no middle course for the settler; he must work or starve. It was not exactly fear, but a sort of nerving of my spirit to meet the worst. Roughing it in the Bush Or, Life in Canada. I addressed him as a man and a Christian; and I acknowledge, with the deepest and most heartfelt gratitude, the generous kindness of his conduct towards us. One very windy Sunday afternoon, a servant-girl, who lived with my friend Mrs. C—, came crying to the house, and implored the use of my canoe and paddles, to cross the lake to see her dying father. At first, she was outrageous, and Their taste in music is not for the sentimental; With his flashing eye, own, is almost incredible. master of us all. The subject next to our heart was immediately introduced, and he was called into the general council. emigrate, the clog which fettered them is suddenly Yet the fear and the dread of it on that first day caused me to throw many an anxious glance on my husband and my child. Formerly, before so many mills were erected, the fish swarmed in incredible numbers in all our rivers and lakes. He seldom spoke during these visits, but wandered about the room, turning over our books and papers, looking at and handling everything. grief. ", "I won't," said the boy; "you may go hum and tell her yourself. In addition to his other acquirements, Q— was a most accomplished gambler. I had heard distant thunder from an early hour in the morning, which, from the eastward, is rather an unusual occurrence. he commenced loading the gun. "I guess you missed your dress," she said, with a smile. Imagine a young lady, dressed in ragged petticoats, through whose yawning rents peeped forth, from time to time, her bare red knees, with uncombed elf-locks, and a face and hands that looked as if they had been unwashed for a month–who did not know A from B, and despised those who did. By mountain, stream, and tree; Thick clouds, that threatened a snow-storm, had blotted out the stars, and we continued to grope our way through a narrow, rocky path, upon the edge of the river, in almost total darkness. So you were afraid to milk the cows. ones with tearful eyes. I guess you won't get me out for that. Will you lend me the tea ?". Some of their words convey the direct meaning of the thing implied–thus, ché-charm, "to sneeze," is the very sound of that act; toó-me-duh, "to churn," gives the noise made by the dashing of the cream from side to side; and many others. the spring as it is in the fall. All these patronising airs, I doubt not, were assumed purposely to impress the minds of those worthy people with an idea of their vast superiority. But if we were pleased with our new servant, Uncle Joe and his family were not, and they commenced a series of petty persecutions that annoyed him greatly, and kindled into a flame all the fiery particles of his irritable nature. he asked. All was new, strange, and distasteful to us; we This feeling is the effect of certain depressing causes, often remote and beyond the reach of legislation, but no less real on that account; and just in proportion to the degree of poverty and servility which exists among the labouring class in the particular part of the United Kingdom from which they come, will be the reaction here. milk the cows, and I saw a fine young buck struggling God–who, I most firmly believe, never deserts those woman whom I had never done anything to offend should be so gratuitously spiteful. What's to be done, Joe?" However, I thought of a plan, which I flattered myself might prove successful; I got Sol. I went over to see her. He started at six in the morning, and I got the pail to go and milk. Our neighbours from the same country were worthy, industrious people; but, on the whole, the evil greatly predominated over the good amongst them. The woman gratefully offered to cook Susanna some dinner but her brother-in-law showed up to take her home. This man's wife was in the habit of sending over for my kettle whenever she wanted to bake, which, as she had a large family, happened nearly every day, and I found her importunity a great nuisance. The feeling of shame once subdued, there was no end to his audacious mendacity. I gasped out. the last has and they gave him the 'Hip, hip, hip, hurrah!' convey to me the idea of life–eternal life; and looking upon them, glancing and In spite of their difficulties, they managed to end up with a satisfactory amount of sugar, molasses, and vinegar. These things were all new to her. The sigh of the wild winds–the rush of the floods– "'Do white men eat bread the first night their papouse is laid in the earth? After having looked for a long time at all the pictures very attentively, he took his dog Sancho upon his knee, and showed him the pictures, with as much gravity as if the animal really could have shared in his pleasure. The year after the sale of his commission, Captain N— found himself considerably in debt, "Never mind, Ella," he said to his anxious wife; "the crops will pay all.". I had some misgivings as to the manner in which these good things could be introduced to the poor lady, who, I had heard, was reserved and proud. Well, I guess, you beat the Yankees hollow. If the captain's prediction proved true in his case, it was not so in ours. Malcolm was very "You old country folks are so stiff, you must have every thing nice, or you fret. I was so much interested in the old woman's narrative–for she was really "It will be past midnight before we reach your brother's clearing" (where we expected to spend the night), said D—. He was, however, a man of good education, of excellent The vicious, uneducated barbarians who form the surplus of over-populous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy. It was midnight when Emilia and I reached my humble home; our good friends the oxen being again put in requisition to carry us there. the land, as he wished to buy a farm, and settle in that neighbourhood. A set of wild fellows have met to "The next morning, by daylight, he continued his journey, not forgetting to blaze with his axe the trees to the right and left as he went along. I cried from the open door. "Consider woman; a black silk of the best quality. He was about the middle size, thin and limber, and somewhat loose in his lower joints, like most of the native Canadians and Yankees. For myself, I could have borne the severest infliction from the pen of the most formidable critic with more fortitude than I bore the cutting up of my first loaf of bread. let off the concentrated venom of his temper. It is so provoking; and him such a valuable animal. Then old Jenny's lamentations burst forth, as, flinging her arms round my husband's neck, she kissed and blessed him after the fashion of her country. I suppose you must live in the neighbourhood, although I cannot perceive any dwelling near us. be cajoled and plundered out of our property by Why, he makes no secret of it. pretty little pig, which she had named Spot. fish, flesh, and fowl. but she wisely let them have their own way. The water is forty feet deep at the base of this Source: Susanna Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush or Life in Canada, vol. 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