Life in the Backwoods

I sketch from Nature, and the picture's true; Whate'er the subject, whether grave or gay, Painful experience in a distant land Made it mine own.
CONTENTS

DETAILED CONTENTS
CHAP. I. —A Journey to the Woods—Corduroy Roads—No Ghosts in Canada
CHAP. II. —The Wilderness and our Indian Friends—The House on Fire—No Papoose; the Mother all alone
CHAP. III. —Running the Fallow—A Wall of Fire—“But God can save us yet.”
CHAP. IV. —Our Logging Bee—“Och! my ould granny taught me.”—Signal Mercies
CHAP. V. —A Trip to Stony Lake—A Feast in an Outhouse—The Squatter's Log Hut
CHAP. VI. —Disappointed Hopes—Milk, Bread and Potatoes our only Fare—The Deer Hunt
CHAP. VII. —The Little Stumpy Man—Hiding from the Sheriff—An ill-natured volunteer
CHAP. VIII. —The Fire—“Oh, dear Mamma, do save Papa's Flute”—“No time to be clane!”