Roughing It In The Bush, By Susanna Moodie











































































































































 -  They talked of log houses to be raised in a single day,
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They Talked Of Log Houses To Be Raised In A Single Day, By The Generous Exertions Of Friends And Neighbours,

But they never ventured upon a picture of the disgusting scenes of riot and low debauchery exhibited during the raising,

Or upon a description of the dwellings when raised - dens of dirt and misery, which would, in many instances, be shamed by an English pig-sty. The necessaries of life were described as inestimably cheap; but they forgot to add that in remote bush settlements, often twenty miles from a market town, and some of them even that distance from the nearest dwelling, the necessaries of life which would be deemed indispensable to the European, could not be procured at all, or, if obtained, could only be so by sending a man and team through a blazed forest road, - a process far too expensive for frequent repetition.

Oh, ye dealers in wild lands - ye speculators in the folly and credulity of your fellow men - what a mass of misery, and of misrepresentation productive of that misery, have ye not to answer for! You had your acres to sell, and what to you were the worn-down frames and broken hearts of the infatuated purchasers? The public believed the plausible statements you made with such earnestness, and men of all grades rushed to hear your hired orators declaim upon the blessings to be obtained by the clearers of the wilderness.

Men who had been hopeless of supporting their families in comfort and independence at home, thought that they had only to come out to Canada to make their fortunes; almost even to realise the story told in the nursery, of the sheep and oxen that ran about the streets, ready roasted, and with knives and forks upon their backs. They were made to believe that if it did not actually rain gold, that precious metal could be obtained, as is now stated of California and Australia, by stooping to pick it up.

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