Life of Sir William E. Logan (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...one way (each end of the bed being furnished with a long pillow). The feet were all mingled together. and each one was obliged to take care of his own. I suppose the hardest kicker usually gets the most room. All being placed, a great coverlet was thrown over them, and then the day's work seemed to be nearly done. The bonne femme, still puffing and blowing a little, got hold of her knitting-needles and an unfinished stocking, and made some further progress towards its completion. But soon I had finished my notes, and then it was time for me to get repose. I was told the big bed was for me. It seemed almost extravagance to take up so much room, while there were still so many without any. 1844. RETURN TO MONTREAL. 215 However, I went to bed. The two men laid down on the floor, with their feet to the fire, and the bonnefemme began her prayers. She prayed most busily, as it appeared to me, pufling and blowing even then, for her words came now loud, now in a whisper, and she prayed inhaling as well as exhaling. She must have repeated a considerable number of Pater nosters. I fell asleep before she and her husband had lain down, but was curious to know how and where they would bestow themselves. On awaking this morning, before any were up, I perceived that the good man had laid a mattress on the floor, between the fire and the small bed, and that the bonne femme had found room for her body on the small bed among the five children, and for her legs on the husbands mattress. The room was a singular picture." On the 11th. of October, Logan left Campbellton on his homeward journey. Though so late in the season, he ascended the Metapedia River as far as Lake Metapedia, in a bark canoe, and there began the long, tedious drive of more than...