Roughing It In The Bush, By Susanna Moodie











































































































































 -  It was only eight o'clock a.m., and we had still four
hours to dinner, which gave us ample leisure - Page 394
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It Was Only Eight O'clock A.M., And We Had Still Four Hours To Dinner, Which Gave Us Ample Leisure To Listen To The Old Man's Stories, Ramble Round The Premises, And Observe All The Striking Features Of The Place.

Mr. Y - - was a Catholic, and the son of a respectable farmer from the south of Ireland.

Some few years before, he had emigrated with a large family of seven sons and two daughters, and being fond of field sports, and greatly taken with the beauty of the locality in which he had pitched his tent in the wilderness, he determined to raise a mill upon the dam which Nature had provided to his hands, and wait patiently until the increasing immigration should settle the townships of Smith and Douro, render the property valuable, and bring plenty of grist to the mill.

He was not far wrong in his calculations; and though, for the first few years, he subsisted entirely by hunting, fishing, and raising what potatoes and wheat he required for his own family, on the most fertile spots he could find on his barren lot, very little corn passed through the mill.

At the time we visited his place, he was driving a thriving trade, and all the wheat that was grown in the neighbourhood was brought by water to be ground at Y - -'s mill.

He had lost his wife a few years after coming to the country; but his two daughters, Betty and Norah, were excellent housewives, and amply supplied her loss.

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