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SPENT A LONG AND BUSY LIFE IN THE VARIED SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY, THIS
MODEST EFFORT IN THE FIELD OF CANADIAN FICTION IS AFFECTIONATELY AND
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The Young Master of Pine Towers
An Upper Canadian Household
"When Summer Days were Fair"
Indian Annals and Legends
The Algonquin Maiden
Catechisings
An Accident
Convalescence
On the Way to the Capital
York and the Maitlands
After "The Ball"
A Kiss and its Consequences
Rival Attractions
"Muddy Little York"
Politics at the Capital
Love's Protestations
A Picnic in the Woods
The Commodore Surrenders
At Stamford Cottage
The Coming of Wanda
The Passing of Wanda
Love's Rewards
It was a May morning in 1825—spring-time of the year, late spring-timeof the century. It had rained the night before, and a warm pallor inthe eastern sky was the only indication that the sun was trying topierce the gray dome of nearly opaque watery fog, lying low upon thatpart of the world now known as the city of Toronto, then the town ofLittle York. This cluster of five or six hundred houses had taken up adetermined position at the edge of a forest then gloomily forbiddingin its aspect, interminable in extent, inexorable in its resistance tothe shy or to the sturdy approaches of the settler. Man versusnature—the successive assaults of perishing humanity upon the almostimpregnable fortresses of the eternal forests—this was the struggleof Cana