The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . PART OF THE OLD ROAD BETWEEN LEGATTS ANDMARSHALLS THE BROOK .... WHERE THE GHOST OF A MANFOULLY WALKS AT TWILIGHT despair by the implacable winterand disease, the less responsible classamong the settlem ran wild. Strangetales of sudden death were toldaround the cabin fires, of brawls withthe Indians and atrocities that fol-lowed, of all the riot and disorderthat might have been expected. Thesewho had money hid it in the chinksof their cabin walls ; and women, leftalone while their men were hunting,
The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . PART OF THE OLD ROAD BETWEEN LEGATTS ANDMARSHALLS THE BROOK .... WHERE THE GHOST OF A MANFOULLY WALKS AT TWILIGHT despair by the implacable winterand disease, the less responsible classamong the settlem ran wild. Strangetales of sudden death were toldaround the cabin fires, of brawls withthe Indians and atrocities that fol-lowed, of all the riot and disorderthat might have been expected. Thesewho had money hid it in the chinksof their cabin walls ; and women, leftalone while their men were hunting,dared unbar the door to none. Then, and even later, it was no uncommonthing for the owner of one of thosetown lots to barter it quite openly fora pint of rum; even their wives, somesaid, were exchange for the sov-ereign elements. Spring came at last by the infinitf-ly slow degrees peculiar to the clim-ate. In April there wais snow on theground; in May it flew in the air, butthe grass began to look green, and bythe first of June there were leaves on. THE HINDS GKOUND the trees. The colonists, or rathersome of them, began to take heart andto think of the town yet to be , of less during fibre, refusedto cast in then lot with an enterprisethat was, they said, patently doomedfrom its beginning; and mindful ofthat hill so hberally bestrewn withgraves, they went their way else-where ; back South, to other settle-ments, anywhere, away from thatplace of evil omen. The others, those who stayed,cleared the land where they had land-ed and for about two miles down orup the harbour, at intervals, as faras the head of the tide, along thewestern side of the harbour, notably onthat hill, aptly named Mount Misery,where the initials of five of them arestill to be seen cut in a rock near thesummit, with the date—1785. Onewent far out into the forest on thiswestern side, and there cleared afarm and worked as a cooper. An-other, Hinds by name, a young man,married the daughter
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