Maple Leaves: A Budget of Legendary, Historical, Critical, and Sporting Intelligence. [1st-7th Ser.]author, 1889 - Birds |
Common terms and phrases
Abbé Anne Baie St bank beach Beauce Beauport beautiful birds boat brave Canada Canadian canoe Cape Capt church command Couture Crane Island Deschambault Duchesnay ducks England English fall father feet fire fish fisheries France French Gaspé Giffard Governor grand green hills Indian Iroquois isles Jacques Cartier Jean John Kalm Kamouraska known Lake St land Lawrence legends Levis Lord Louis Louis-Joseph Papineau Lower Canada Madame Magdalen Islands Manor miles Mistassini Montcalm Montmagny Montmorenci Montreal night Papineau parish party patriotic Pierre porpoise Portneuf Prince Edward Prince Edward Island Province of Quebec railway Rimouski river Rivière du Sud Rivière Ouelle Rivière-Ouelle sail Saint salmon says Seal Rocks Seigneur seigniorial ship shore Sieur snipe sporting spot steamer stream summer Taché Tadoussac tide took travellers trees trout village whilst wild winter woods young
Popular passages
Page 242 - The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night is chill, the cloud is...
Page 6 - An Accurate and Interesting Account of the Hardships and Sufferings of that Band of Heroes, who Traversed the Wilderness in the Campaign Against Quebec in 1775. By John Joseph Henry, Esq., Late President of the Second Judicial District of Pennsylvania, Lancaster: Printed by William Greer, 1812.
Page 190 - Yon shadowy bark hath been to that wreck, And the dim blue fire, that lights her deck, Doth play on as pale and livid a crew As ever yet drank the churchyard dew. To...
Page 249 - ... perpendicular wheel, on each side, without any circular band or rim. To the end of each double spoke is fixed a square board, which enters the water, and, by the rotary motion of the wheel, acts like a paddle.
Page 84 - You can have no conception what kind of men composed their officers. Of those we took, one Major was a blacksmith, another a hatter; of their captains, there was a butcher, a — *, a tanner, a shoemaker, a tavernkeeper, &c., &c. Yet they all pretended to be gentlemen.
Page 87 - Brothers, we are the children of those people who have now taken up the hatchet against us. More than one hundred years ago we were all as one family. We then differed in our religion, and came over to this great country by consent of the king. Our fathers bought land of the savages, and have grown a great people — even as the stars in the sky.
Page 53 - Saint-Louis) is situated on the west or steepest side of the mountain, just above the lower -city. It is not properly a palace, but a large building of stone, two stories high, extending north and south. On the west side of it is a court-yard, surrounded partly with a wall, and partly with houses. On the east side, or towards the river, is a gallery as long as the whole building, and about two fathoms broad, paved with smooth flags, and included on the outsides by iron rails, from whence the city...
Page 247 - I'll name, they ca'd him Caesar, Was keepit for his honour's pleasure; His hair, his size, his mouth, his lugs, Shew'd he was nane o' Scotland's dogs ; But whalpit some place far abroad, Where sailors gang to fish for cod.
Page 6 - The carts were already in a large scow, or flat-bottomed boat, and the ferrymen, seeing us coming, were tugging hard at the ferry-rope, to get off the boat, which was aground, before we should arrive. It was no small matter, in exertion, to outdo people of our agility. Simpson, with his usual good humour, urged the race, from a hope that the garrison would not fire upon us, when in the boat with their flying townsmen. The weight of our bodies and arms put the boat aground in good earnest Simpson...
Page 86 - We were making enquiry at every likely stage, for this purpose visited an old peasant's house, where was a merry old woman at her loom, and two or three fine young girls. They were exceedingly rejoiced with our company. Bought some eggs, rum, sugar, sweetmeats, &c., where we made ourselves very happy. Upon the old woman being acquainted from whence we came, immediately fell singing and dancing " Yankee Doodle" with the greatest air of good humour.