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Title: Two Knapsacks
A Novel of Canadian Summer Life

Author: John Campbell

Release Date: January 16, 2006 [eBook #17532]

Language: English

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TWO KNAPSACKS:

A Novel of Canadian Summer Life.

by

J. CAWDOR BELL.

Toronto
The Williamson Book Co., Ltd.
Entered, according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in
the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, by the Williamson Book
Company, Limited, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture.

PUBLISHERS' NOTE.

The Publishers have extreme pleasure in placing this novel, by a new and
promising native author, before the reading public of Canada. They will
be greatly disappointed if it does not at once take its place among the
best products of Canadian writers. While the work has peculiar interest
for Torontonians and dwellers in the districts so graphically described,
its admirable character drawings of many "sorts and conditions" of our
people--its extremely clever dialect, representing Irish, Scotch,
English, Canadian, French, Southern and Negro speech, and the working
out of its story, which is done in such a way as would credit an
experienced romancer--should insure the book a welcome in very many
homes. The literary flavour is all that can be desired; the author
evidencing a quite remarkable acquaintance with English Literature,
especially with Wordsworth, the Poet of the Lake Country.

TWO KNAPSACKS:

A Novel of Canadian Summer Life.

by

J. CAWDOR BELL.

CHAPTER I.

The Friends--The Knapsacks--The Queen's Wharf--The Northern
Railway--Bel