Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 / 2008-05-23 00:00:00
EBOOK THE ENGLISHWOMAN IN AMERICA ***
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THE ENGLISHWOMAN IN AMERICA
BY
ISABELLA LUCY BIRD
FOREWORD AND NOTES BY ANDREW HILL CLARK
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Prefatory and explanatory--The voyage out--The sentimental--The actual
--The oblivious--The medley--Practical joking--An unwelcome companion--
American patriotism--The first view--The departure.
CHAPTER II.
An inhospitable reception--Halifax and the Blue Noses--The heat--
Disappointed expectations--The great departed--What the Blue Noses might
be--What the coach was not--Nova Scotia and its capabilities--The roads
and their annoyances--A tea dinner--A night journey and a Highland cabin
--A nautical catastrophe--A joyful reunion.
CHAPTER III.
Popular ignorance--The garden island--Summer and winter contrasted--A
wooden capital--Island politics, and their consequences--Gossip--"Blowin-
time"--Religion and the clergy--The servant nuisance--Colonial society--An
evening party--An island premier--Agrarian outrage--A visit to the
Indians--The pipe of peace--An Indian coquette--Country hospitality--A
missionary--A novel mode of lobster-fishing--Uncivilised life--Far away in
the woods--Starvation and dishonesty--An old Highlander and a Highland
welcome--Hopes for the future.
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