Most anxiously I awaited a reply to my
application to the Governor; but no reply came.
The first week in August our dear Moodie came home, and brought
with him, to our no small joy, J. E - -, who had just returned from
Ireland. E - - had been disappointed about the money, which was
subject to litigation; and, tired of waiting at home until the
tedious process of the law should terminate, he had come back to
the woods, and, before night, was reinstated in his old quarters.
His presence made Jenny all alive; she dared him at once to a trial
of skill with her in the wheat-field, which E - - prudently declined.
He did not expect to stay longer in Canada than the fall, but,
whilst he did stay, he was to consider our house his home.
That harvest was the happiest we ever spent in the bush. We had
enough of the common necessaries of life. A spirit of peace and
harmony pervaded our little dwelling, for the most affectionate
attachment existed among its members. We were not troubled with
servants, for the good old Jenny we regarded as an humble friend,
and were freed, by that circumstance, from many of the cares and
vexations of a bush life.
