Roughing It In The Bush, By Susanna Moodie











































































































































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I guess you will find the woods pretty lonesome, said our driver,
whose thoughts had been evidently employed on the - Page 306
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"I Guess You Will Find The Woods Pretty Lonesome," Said Our Driver, Whose Thoughts Had Been Evidently Employed On The Same Subject As Our Own.

"We were once in the woods, but emigration has stepped ahead of us, and made our'n a cleared part of the country.

When I was a boy, all this country, for thirty miles on every side of us, was bush land. As to Peterborough, the place was unknown; not a settler had ever passed through the great swamp, and some of them believed that it was the end of the world."

"What swamp is that?" asked I.

"Oh, the great Cavan swamp. We are just two miles from it; and I tell you that the horses will need a good rest, and ourselves a good dinner, by the time we are through it. Ah, Mrs. Moodie, if ever you travel that way in summer, you will know something about corduroy roads. I was 'most jolted to death last fall; I thought it would have been no bad notion to have insured my teeth before I left C - -. I really expected that they would have been shook out of my head before we had done manoeuvring over the big logs."

"How will my crockery stand it in the next sleigh?" quoth I. "If the road is such as you describe, I am afraid that I shall not bring a whole plate to Douro."

"Oh, the snow is a great leveller - it makes all rough places smooth. But with regard to this swamp, I have something to tell you.

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