Stories of Peace and War (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Stories of Peace and War

After breakfast they marched to the Hudson Bay Company's store, know ing as they did that in Canada there are only two places for a traveller to go who wants anything - the great company or the parish priest; and then, having explained to the factor their dream, they were told that be yond, beyond some days' journey - oh! That awful beyond, which for centuries has stood across the path of the pioneer, and in these latter days confronts the sportsman and wil derness lover that beyond some days' journey to the north was a country such as they had dreamed - up Temiscamingue and beyond.

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Excerpt from Stories of Peace and War

I cannot tell you precisely how our party was sorted, but one was a lawyer with eyeglasses and settled habits, loving nature, though detesting canoes; the other was nominally a merchant, but in reality an atavic Norseman of the wolf and raven kind; while I am not new. Together we started.

Presently the Abwees sat about the board of a lumbermen's hotel, filled with house-flies and slatternly waiter-girls, who talked familiarly while they served greasy food. The Abwees were yet sore in their minds at the thoughts of the smelly beds upstairs, and discouragement sat deeply on their souls.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.