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Susanna Moodie. Life in the Backwoods
Life in the Backwoods
Table of Contents
A SEQUEL TO ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH
CHAPTER I. A JOURNEY TO THE WOODS
CHAPTER II. THE WILDERNESS, AND OUR INDIAN FRIENDS
CHAPTER III. BURNING THE FALLOW
CHAPTER IV. OUR LOGGING-BEE
J. W. D. M
CHAPTER V. A TRIP TO STONY LAKE
CHAPTER VI. DISAPPOINTED HOPES
CHAPTER VII. THE LITTLE STUMPY MAN
CHAPTER VIII. THE FIRE
CHAPTER IX. THE OUTBREAK
CHAPTER X. THE WHIRLWIND
CHAPTER XI. THE WALK TO DUMMER
CHAPTER XII. A CHANGE IN OUR PROSPECTS
CHAPTER XIII. THE MAGIC SPELL
THE MAPLE-TREE
A CANADIAN SONG
THE END
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Susanna Moodie
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Our government grant was upon the lake shore, and Moodie had chosen for the site of his log house a bank that sloped gradually from the edge of the water, until it attained to the dignity of a hill. Along the top of this ridge, the forest-road ran, and midway down the hill, our humble home, already nearly completed, stood, surrounded by the eternal forest. A few trees had been cleared in its immediate vicinity, just sufficient to allow the workmen to proceed, and to prevent the fall of any tree injuring the building, or the danger of its taking fire during the process of burning the fallow.
A neighbour had undertaken to build this rude dwelling by contract, and was to have it ready for us by the first week in the new year. The want of boards to make the divisions in the apartments alone hindered him from fulfilling his contract. These had lately been procured, and the house was to be ready for our reception in the course of a week. Our trunks and baggage had already been conveyed by Mr. D—— hither; and in spite of my sister's kindness and hospitality, I longed to find myself once more settled in a home of my own.
