This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...of her sons were ship-builders), had a house finished before any of us. Rice was an Englishman and an old soldier, lacking a thumb that was shot off, and had been in the country some A HARD STRUGGLE. 293 time, living at St Laurent; he did not move on to his lots, but sent up a man to chop and make ready. We spent the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...of her sons were ship-builders), had a house finished before any of us. Rice was an Englishman and an old soldier, lacking a thumb that was shot off, and had been in the country some A HARD STRUGGLE. 293 time, living at St Laurent; he did not move on to his lots, but sent up a man to chop and make ready. We spent the winter in enlarging our clearance and were eager about it. At the sound of every tree that fell, we would give a youp, and I would start it, so glad was I that a bit more opening in the woods was made. I went out and helped, brushing the tops of the trees, so that the men would have room to work. It was very lonesome and so difficult to get provisions in, having to walk sometimes through two feet of snow on the river to Reeves's to buy what we wanted. I have often walked there myself. Rice had sent a cow to his man, and on it proving farrow, he wanted to sell it, and we bought it, and a grand milker she afterwards proved to be. e got some hay from David Bryson that kept her living until the spring, and then I went over to the ridge and cut the yellow flowers (mayflowers) and brought them over to her by the basketful, for we had her tethered to a stump, being afraid we would lose her in the bush. We had a good bit of clearance ready when seed-time came, and I helped to log it. The potatoes we got to plant, we had to cany m from the river Besides the potatoes, we planted some corn, and both did extraordinarily well. When the potatoes were dug, we hoed in some fall-wheat, which yielded abundantly, lo carry it to the barn, my husband made a barrow of light cedars, and a heavy lift it was. We made no potash for several years, being unable to buy a kettle and coolers, so we saved our ashes, storing them under cover and digging a hole in the centre to...
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