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
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