. Canada; a descriptive text-book . Lacroese Player. 22 cal gathering, hut all are much alike. After dinner there are variousathletic sports, a luge dancing platform provides fun for many, while there are speeches for the elders and usually some patriotic harvest time, however, every one is too busy for games, andwork from daylight till dark is the order of the day. The countrypeople have much more spare time in winter than insummer, and in the long evenings are quite freefrom work. Sleighing parties are then verypopular, for every farmer has several horses andone or two
. Canada; a descriptive text-book . Lacroese Player. 22 cal gathering, hut all are much alike. After dinner there are variousathletic sports, a luge dancing platform provides fun for many, while there are speeches for the elders and usually some patriotic harvest time, however, every one is too busy for games, andwork from daylight till dark is the order of the day. The countrypeople have much more spare time in winter than insummer, and in the long evenings are quite freefrom work. Sleighing parties are then verypopular, for every farmer has several horses andone or two large sleighs. Nothing is moreexhilarating than to dash along in a countrysleigh, behind a lively pair of horses, withjingling hells and merry laughter. After anhour or two of driving, all gather at one ofthe farm houses to dance or play country folk know one another inti-mately and almost all are treated as equals,so there is a great deal of pleasant inter-course. But people are thrown more opontheir own resources than in town. Theynecessarily live
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