Traill, Catharine Parr, 1802-1899 / 2008-06-22 00:00:00

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CANADIAN CRUSOES.
A Tale
of
THE RICE LAKE PLAINS.
CATHARINE PARR TRAIL,
AUTHORESS OF "THE BACKWOODS OF CANADA, ETC."
EDITED BY AGNES STRICKLAND.
ILLUSTRATED BY HARVEY.
LONDON:
ARTHUR HALL, VIRTUE, & CO.
25, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1852. DEDICATED
TO THE CHILDREN OF THE SETTLERS
ON
THE RICE LAKE PLAINS,
BY THEIR
FAITHFUL FRIEND AND WELL-WISHER
THE AUTHORESS.
OAKLANDS, RICE LAKE,
15_th Oct_ 1850 PREFACE
IT will be acknowledged that human sympathy irresistibly responds to any
narrative, founded on truth, which graphically describes the struggles of
isolated human beings to obtain the aliments of life. The distinctions
of pride and rank sink into nought, when the mind is engaged in the
contemplation of the inevitable consequences of the assaults of the gaunt
enemies, cold and hunger. Accidental circumstances have usually given
sufficient experience of their pangs, even to the most fortunate, to make
them own a fellow-feeling with those whom the chances of shipwreck, war,
wandering, or revolutions have cut off from home and hearth, and the
requisite supplies; not only from the thousand artificial comforts which
civilized society classes among the necessaries of life, but actually from
a sufficiency of "daily bread.
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