The land of open doors; being letters from western CanadaWith foreword by Earl Grey . oured friendagain took me across in a boat. The mailwagon had just gone on as I arrived, havingtaken four hours to get across. The mailmantook the mail across in the boat, swam the horses,and then made them pull the wagon bodilythrough the water at the end of a loggingchain. I slept at Hiltons, and next morning overtookthe mail. Arriving at the Little Paddle aboutnoon, I found the team and mail wagon stand-ing by the side of the swollen creek. Thedriver was scouting along the bank to find someplace to cross.
The land of open doors; being letters from western CanadaWith foreword by Earl Grey . oured friendagain took me across in a boat. The mailwagon had just gone on as I arrived, havingtaken four hours to get across. The mailmantook the mail across in the boat, swam the horses,and then made them pull the wagon bodilythrough the water at the end of a loggingchain. I slept at Hiltons, and next morning overtookthe mail. Arriving at the Little Paddle aboutnoon, I found the team and mail wagon stand-ing by the side of the swollen creek. Thedriver was scouting along the bank to find someplace to cross. I was in the same predicament,as the bridge which had carried me across beforewas now too high out of the water to move. Butat this moment up came the mailman with aFrench Canadian, whom he had discovered twomiles down the river. The French Canadianhad a boat, and we drove down to his shack,where we had some pork and eggs for we took the mail bags, and our host, havingrowed us down the river about half a mile in hisvery rickety boat, landed us safely the other side. 48. A KENTISH FARMERS NEW HOME(Log shack lined with newspapers)
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