| | Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale Of The Lake St. John Countryby Louis Hemon, Trans. By W. H. Blake 
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Short excerpt: Young or old, pretty or ugly, nearly all were well clad in fur cloaks, or in coats of heavy cloth; for, honouring the Sunday mass, sole festival of their lives, they had doffed coarse blouses and homespun petticoats, and a stranger might well have stood amazed to find them habited almost with elegance in this remote spot...
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His face was still smooth as a child's, with immature features and guileless eyes, and one not knowing him would probably have been surprised to hear him speak with all the deliberation of an older and experienced man, and to see him everlastingly charging his wooden pipe; but in the Province of Quebec the boys are looked upon as men when they undertake men's work, and as to their precocity in smoking there is always the excellent excuse that it afford some protection in summer against the attacking swarms of black-flies, mosquitos and sand-flies. Related Free eBooks - Observations On The Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, And Other Matters Worthy Of Notice Made By Mr. John Bartram, In His Travels From Pensilvania To Onondago, Oswego And The Lake Ontario, In Canada: To Which Is Annex'd A Curious Account Of The Cataracts At Niagara By Mr. Peter Kalm, A Swedish Gentleman Who Travelled There
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