Picturesque Quebec, By James Macpherson Le Moine










































































































































 -  I will have to write another poem.
    Gentlemen, that was the first time in Canada that poetry made a return - Page 85
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"I Will Have To Write Another Poem." Gentlemen, That Was The First Time In Canada That Poetry Made A Return

To its author, and in tasting these delicate viands which the hospitable city of Quebec now offers to one of

Those early Bohemians in recognition of his literary success, I could not fail to recollect with emotion this amusing circumstance now enveloped, with other scenes of youth, sometimes glad - sometimes sorrowful, in the shadowy robe of past recollections. Another story just suggests itself to my mind. Lusignan and I occupied the attic of an old house in Palace street. Our room was heated by a stove-pipe, which reached from the lower apartments. One day I had published in Le Canadien - Tempora Mutantur - a little poem in which was the following line:

"Shivering in my attic poor."

The next day a surprise awaited us. A dumb stove had replaced the mere stove-pipe, and while holding our sides from laughter we heard this speech: "Gentlemen, we are very indulgent, considering your noisy meetings - we are not very particular when rent-day arrives - and if you so shivered in your room, it would have been better to have said so privately, than to have complained of it in the newspapers." (Laughter.) Poor Mrs. Tessier, our landlady - she was not well acquainted with figures of speech, but she has been the Providence of many of the destitute, and more than one who hears me now can say as I do, that no better or more obliging heart ever beat in a more pitiful bosom towards purseless youth.

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