Neville Trueman the Pioneer Preacher

ride from the western end of his circuit, which reached nearly to the head of Lake Ontario. The forest was gorgeous in its autumnal foliage, like Joseph in his coat of many colours. T

son patches of ripened buckwheat looked like a blood-stained field of battle: alas! too true

ore the time of your close, black, surly-looking kitchen stoves-snapped and sparkled its hearty welcome to the travel-worn guest. It was a rich Rembrant-like picture that greeted Neville as he entered the room. The whole apartment was f

cefully through the room, preparing the evening meal. Savoury odours proceeded from a pan upon the coals

ther uncomfortable-looking back and arms of which were made of cedar roots, with the bar

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in fashion s

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sceptre of hi

ient halls may

ling in his sleep, as if in dreams he chased the deer, and then,

iously shaping an ox-yoke with a spoke-shave. For in those days Canadian far

dawl and waxed end, anvil and forge. The squire himself was no mean blacksmith, and could sh

of his wrappings. "Well, what's the news outside?" he continued, we must explain that as Niagara, next to York and Kingston, was the largest settlement

t anxiety to hear some. When I return from the

come and a night's lodging outside of Methodist circles. They diffused much useful information, and their visits dispelled the mental stagnation which is almost sure to settle upon an isolated community. The whole household gathering around the evening fire, hung with eager attention upon their lips as, from their well-stored minds, they brought forth things new and o

oon to be more. The Americans have been massing their forces at Forts Porter, Schlosser,

ey did at Sandwich," said Zenas, who took an enthusiast

period, had drawn up their seats to the fire. "They calkilated they'd gobble up the hull of Canada; but 'stead of that, they lost the hull State of Michi

it," said Neville: "I have n

uss the venison first and the war afterwards

ad been done to the

that a good fire had

he parlour, and, in

n adjournm

fire as if reluctant to leave it, and Neville asked as a favour t

which we used to bivouac when I went a-sogering. I can't get the hang o' those new-fangled Yankee noti

und the hearth. The squire took down from th

eat and drink when I was campaigning there. I wish I could quit it; but, young man," addressing himself to Neville

oken whip-stock and fitting it with a new lash; Tom Loker idly whittled a stick, and Miss Katharine drew up her low rocking-chair beside her father, and proc

rrender," said Zenas, to whom the stir

wuz to reach, too. Never wuz so tired in my life. Follering the plough all day wuz nothing to it. But when we got to the P'int, we found the Gineral there. An' he made us a rousin' speech that p

they ca' it," i

yance of farm produce.]-a'most anythin' that 'ud float. Ther' wuz three hundred of us at the start, an' we picked up more on the way. Wall, we sailed an' paddled a matter o' two hundred miles to Fort Malden, an' awful cramped it wuz, crouchin' all day in

Methinks he's the gran'est o' the name himsel'-the laird o' a score o' toonships a' settled by himsel'. Better yon than like the gran' Duke o' Sutherland drivin' thae puir bodies frae hoose an' hame. Lang suld Canada mind the gran' Colonel Talbot [Footnote: Posterity has not been ungrateful to the gallant colonel. In the towns of St. Thomas and Talbotvil

spenses justice, marries the settlers, reads prayers on Sunday, and rules the settlement like a forest patriarch."

, their great father across the sea had woke up from his long sleep an' sent his warriors to help his red children, who would shed the last drop of their blood in fighting ag

troit an' the 'Merican fort on a piece o' birch bark, as cl

artial enthusiasm. "Mon, it made me mind o' Wallace an' his 'Scots wham Bruce hae aften led.' I could ha' followed h

the flash o' the big guns, showin' their black muzzles there," Loker ingenuously confessed. "I'm n

sardonically, "gin ye're born tae be hang

id Tom, somewhat resentfully, giving the

Commander-in-Chief of the United States army. The prisoners were sent to Montreal and Quebec. Hull was subsequently court-marshalled for cowardice

o them. On our march home, the prisone

aid the Indians would massacre the women an

they had sworn off liquor during the war. It's the fire-wa

is a great and bloodless victory. I

truggle of it in the old war, and I fear that there will have to be some blood-letting before these bad

led-it was long before the days of Temperance Societies- even the preacher

that night the majestic forty-sixth psalm

Burg ist u

rched to victory on many a hard-fought field-the hymn sung by the

young preacher's voice assumed the triumphant

arth; He breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear

I will be exalted among the heath

with us, the God of

ce of Katherine Drayton to this prophecy of millennial peace,

woman's heart should bleed at the desolations