A Countess from Canada: A Story of Life in the Backwoods

Produced by Prepared by Al Haines
A Story of Life in the Backwoods
Author of Three Girls in Mexico Daughters of the Dominion Sisters of Silver Creek A Courageous Girl &c.
Contents
Illustrations
The Rescue of Jarvis Ferrars 'Duke Radford Meets with an Accident Katherine and Miles Spearing for Fish With all her strength Katherine hauled at the rope Bartering with the Indians Drifting Down the River
Beyond the Second Portage
Oh dear, how I should love to go out!
Katherine Radford stretched her arms wearily above her head as she spoke. There had been five days of persistent snowfall; but this morning the clouds had broken, showing strips and patches of blue sky, and there was bright sunshine flooding the world again, with hard and sparkling frost.
Why don't you go? demanded Phil, who was the youngest. Miles and me don't mind having a holiday at all.
Speak for yourself if you like, growled Miles, who was thirteen; but I want to get this schooling business over and done with, so that I can start doing something useful.
And speak grammatically, please, or else keep silent. You should have said, 'Miles and I', remarked Katherine with quite crushing dignity, as she turned from the window to take her place at the table once more. Phil thrust his tongue in his cheek, after the manner beloved of small boys, and subsided into silence and an abstracted study of his spelling book.