Roughing It In The Bush, By Susanna Moodie











































































































































 -  I screamed to my champion for help; but where
was he? - running like a frightened chipmunk along the fallen timber - Page 576
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I Screamed To My Champion For Help; But Where Was He?

- Running like a frightened chipmunk along the fallen timber, shouting to my eldest girl, at the top of his voice -

"Run Katty, run! - The bull, the bull! Run, Katty! - The bull, the bull!" - leaving us poor creatures far behind in the chase.

The bull, who cared not one fig for us, did not even stop to give us a passing stare, and was soon lost among the trees; while our valiant knight never stopped to see what had become of us, but made the best of his way home. So much for taking an innocent for a guard.

The next month most of the militia regiments were disbanded. My husband's services were no longer required at B - -, and he once more returned to help to gather in our scanty harvest. Many of the old debts were paid off by his hard-saved pay; and though all hope of continuing in the militia service was at an end, our condition was so much improved that we looked less to the dark than to the sunny side of the landscape.

The potato crop was gathered in, and I had collected my store of dandelion-roots for our winter supply of coffee, when one day brought a letter to my husband from the Governor's secretary, offering him the situation of sheriff of the V - - district. Though perfectly unacquainted with the difficulties and responsibilities of such an important office, my husband looked upon it as a gift sent from heaven to remove us from the sorrows and poverty with which we were surrounded in the woods.

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