Roughing It In The Bush, By Susanna Moodie











































































































































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It was my intention to walk to my sister's with this packet,
directly the important affair of breakfast had been - Page 467
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It Was My Intention To Walk To My Sister's With This Packet, Directly The Important Affair Of Breakfast Had Been Discussed; But The Extreme Cold Of The Morning Had Occasioned Such Delay That It Was Late Before The Breakfast-Things Were Cleared Away.

After dressing, I found the air so keen that I could not venture out without some risk to my nose, and my husband kindly volunteered to go in my stead.

I had hired a young Irish girl the day before. Her friends were only just located in our vicinity, and she had never seen a stove until she came to our house. After Moodie left, I suffered the fire to die away in the Franklin stove in the parlour, and went into the kitchen to prepare bread for the oven.

The girl, who was a good-natured creature, had heard me complain bitterly of the cold, and the impossibility of getting the green wood to burn, and she thought that she would see if she could not make a good fire for me and the children, against my work was done. Without saying one word about her intention, she slipped out through a door that opened from the parlour into the garden, ran round to the wood-yard, filled her lap with cedar chips, and, not knowing the nature of the stove, filled it entirely with the light wood.

Before I had the least idea of my danger, I was aroused from the completion of my task by the crackling and roaring of a large fire, and a suffocating smell of burning soot.

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