Degeneracy of Bees.

CHAPTER IV.
My Marriage. -- I become a Settler on my own Account -- I purchase Land
in Otonabee. -- Return to Darlington. -- My first Attempt at driving a
Span. -- Active Measures to remedy a Disaster. -- Patience of my
Father-in-law. -- My first Bear-hunt. -- Beaver-meadows. -- Canadian
Thunder-storms. -- Fright of a Settler's Family

CHAPTER V.
Canadian Harvest. -- Preparing Timber for Frame-buildings. -- Raising
"Bee." -- Beauty of the Canadian Autumn. -- Visit to Otonabee. -- Rough
Conveyance. -- Disaccommodation. -- Learned Landlord. -- Cobourg. --
Otonabee River. -- Church of Gore's Landing. -- Effects of persevering
industry

CHAPTER VI.
Wood-duck Shooting. -- Adventure on Rice Lake. -- Irish Howl. --
Arrival at Gore's Landing. -- General Howling for the Defunct. --
Dangers of our Journey. -- Safe Arrival at Cobourg. -- Salmon-fishing.
-- Canoe-building after a bad Fashion. -- Salmon-spearing. -- Canadian
Fish and Fisheries. -- Indian Summer. -- Sleighs and Sleighing. --
Domestic Love

CHAPTER VII.
Employments of a Man of Education in the Colony. -- Yankee Wedding. --
My Commission. -- Winter in Canada. -- Healthiness of the Canadian
Climate. -- Search for Land. -- Purchase Wild Land at Douro. -- My
Flitting. -- Put up a Shanty. -- Inexperience in Clearing. -- Plan-
heaps

CHAPTER VIII.
A Logging-Bee. -- Lime-burning. -- Shingling. -- Arrival of my Brother-
in-law. -- Birth of my Son. -- Sad Journey to Darlington. -- Lose my
Way. -- Am refused a Lift. -- My boyish Anger. -- My Wife's Death. --
The Funeral. -- I leave Darlington

CHAPTER IX.
Return to Otonabee. -- Benevolence of my Neighbour. -- Serious Accident
to a Settler. -- His singular Misfortunes. -- Particulars of his Life

CHAPTER X.
Preparations for my second Marriage. -- Dangerous Adventure. -- My
Wife's nocturnal Visitor. -- We prepare for the Reception of our
uninvited Guest. -- Bruin's unwelcome Visit to an Irish Shanty. -- Our
Bear-hunt. -- Major Elliott's Duel with Bruin. -- His Wounds and
Victory

CHAPTER XI.
Canada the Poor Man's Country. -- Disadvantages of Inexperience. --
Township of Harvey Settlement. -- Pauper Emigration. -- Superior
Advantages of the Labourer Colonist. -- Temperance and Temperance
Societies. -- A dry Answer to watery Arguments. -- British and Foreign
Temperance Society

CHAPTER XII.
Want of Home-pasturage in Canada. -- Danger of being lost in the Woods.
-- Plain Directions to the Tra