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Title: Sketches And Tales Illustrative Of Life In The Backwoods Of New Brunswick
Gleaned From Actual Observation And Experience During A Residence
Of Seven Years In That Interesting Colony

Author: Mrs. F. Beavan

Release Date: June 22, 2004 [EBook #12675]

Language: English

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SKETCHES AND TALES ILLUSTRATIVE OF LIFE IN THE BACKWOODS
OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NORTH AMERICA,

Gleaned From Actual Observation And Experience During A
Residence Of Seven Years In That Interesting Colony.

BY MRS. F. BEAVAN.

"Son of the Isles! talk not to me,
Of the old world's pride and luxury!
Tho' gilded bower and fancy cot,
Grace not each wild concession lot;
Tho' rude our hut, and coarse our cheer,
The wealth the world can give is here."

1845.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Introductory Remarks
New Brunswick--by whom settled
Remarks on State of Morals and Religion
American Physiognomy
The Spring Freshets
Cranberries
Stream Driving
Moving a House
Frolics
Sugar Making
Breaking up of the Ice
First appearances of Spring
Burning a Fallow
A Walk through a Settlement
Log Huts
Description of a Native New Brunswicker's House
Blowing the Horn
A Deserted Lot
The Bushwacker
The Postman
American Newspapers
Musquitoes
An Emigrant's House
Unsuccessful Lumberer
The Law of Kindness exemplified in the Case of a Criminal
Schools
The School Mistress
The Woods
Baptists' Association
A Visit to the House of a Refugee
The Indian Bride, a Refugee's Story
Mr. Hanselpecker
Burning of Miramichi
The Lost One--a tale of the Early Settlers
The Mignionette
Song of the Irish Mourner
A Winter's Evening Sketch
The School-mistress's Dream
Library in the Backwoods
The Indian Summer
The Lost Children--a Poem
Sleigh Riding