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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Canadian Crusoes, by Catherine Parr Traill This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Canadian Crusoes A Tale of The Rice Lake Plains Author: Catherine Parr Traill Release Date: June, 2005 [EBook #8382] Posting Date: August 4, 2009 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CANADIAN CRUSOES *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David Widger, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team CANADIAN CRUSOES. A TALE OF THE RICE LAKE PLAINS By Catharine Parr Traill 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, 15th 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." Where is the man, woman, or child who has not sympathized with the poor seaman before the mast, Alexander Selkirk, typified by the genius of Defoe as his inimitable Crusoe, whose name (although one by no means uncommon in middle life in the east of England,) has become synonymous for all who build and plant in a wilderness, "cut off from humanity's reach?" Our insular situation has
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