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Title: The Voyageur and Other Poems

Author: William Henry Drummond

Illustrator: Frederick Simpson Coburn

Release Date: February 16, 2007 [EBook #20609]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: "So I fill de glass an' I raise it high
An' drink to de Voyageur."]

THE VOYAGEUR

AND OTHER POEMS

By William Henry Drummond, M.D.

Author of "The Habitant," "Johnnie Courteau," etc.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

Frederick Simpson Coburn

SIXTEENTH THOUSAND

New York and London

G. P. Putnam's Sons

The Knickerbocker Press

COPYRIGHT, 1905

BY

WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND

Fourteenth Printing

TO

WILLIAM HENRY PARKER

LAC LA PECHE

Philosopher of many parts,
Beloved of all true honest hearts,
A man who laughs at every ill,
Because "there's corn in Egypt still."

[Illustration: Border]

CONTENTS

THE VOYAGEUR
BRUNO THE HUNTER
PRIDE
DIEUDONNE (GOD-GIVEN)
THE DEVIL
THE FAMILY LARAMIE
YANKEE FAMILIES
THE LAST PORTAGE
GETTING ON
PIONEERS
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
CHAMPLAIN
PRO PATRIA
GETTING STOUT
DOCTOR HILAIRE
BARBOTTE (BULL-POUT)
THE ROSSIGNOL
MEB-BE
SNUBBING (TYING-UP) THE RAFT
A RAINY DAY IN CAMP
JOSETTE
JOE BOUCHER
CHARMETTE
LAC SOUCI
POIRIER'S ROOSTER
DOMINIQUE
HOME
CANADIAN FOREVER
TWINS
KEEP OUT OF THE WEEDS
THE HOLY ISLAND
THE RIVIERE DES PRAIRIES
THE WIND THAT LIFTS THE FOG
THE FOX HUNT

[Illustration: Border]

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE VOYAGEUR . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

"_So I fill de glass an' I raise it high
An' drink to de Voyageur._"

THE VOYAGEUR

"_Far, far away from hees own vill-age
An' soun' of de parish bell._"

BRUNO THE HUNTER

"_So de devil ketch heem, of course, at las'._"

THE LAST PORTAGE

"_De moon an' de star above is gone,
Yet somet'ing tell me I mus' go on._"

PIONEERS