The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . out thesnow. They did not count on therain! But the rain came, in perhaps, oneof those Januaiw thaws that are afeature of the Nova Scotian climate,and soaked unfailingly through theirroofs and into tJieir cabins, so thatthey took cold and died, many ofthem, and had no further use fortheir town-lots, except as earth forshallow graves. Those who livedlearned by experience, and tried an-other scheme for roofing. They tooktree-trunks and split pieces fromthem, somewhat like stave wood, andmade their roofs of
The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . out thesnow. They did not count on therain! But the rain came, in perhaps, oneof those Januaiw thaws that are afeature of the Nova Scotian climate,and soaked unfailingly through theirroofs and into tJieir cabins, so thatthey took cold and died, many ofthem, and had no further use fortheir town-lots, except as earth forshallow graves. Those who livedlearned by experience, and tried an-other scheme for roofing. They tooktree-trunks and split pieces fromthem, somewhat like stave wood, andmade their roofs of them, with betterresults. Somehow they stnifjgledthrough the winter. Three hundredof them died and were buried allalong the slope of the hill: the restlived through it in their leaky cabins,not, it is easy to imagine, with anyrose-coloured hopes for spring, butwith who knows how much of anguish-ed looking forward to that season andsurprise that was half t-error at itslateness. Thet-e had been other enemies thanrold during the winter. ^Y^th butlittle practice in restraint, brought t-o.
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