Father Lacombe: The Black-robe Voyageur |
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Page vi - Send not your foolish and feeble; send me your strong and your sane — Strong for the red rage of battle; sane, for I harry them sore; Send me men girt for the combat, men who are grit to the core...
Page 96 - River, and it must be confessed that the Romish priests far excel their Protestant brethren in missionary enterprise and influence. They have established stations at Isle a La Crosse, St. Alban's, St. Ann's, and other places, far out in the wilds, undeterred by danger or hardship, and gathering half-breeds and Indians around them, have taught with considerable success the elements of...
Page vii - I saw a priest standing on a flat rock, his crucifix in his right hand and his broad hat in the other, silhouetted against the rising sun which made a golden halo about him, talking to a group of Indians — men, women and pappooses — who were listening with reverent attention.
Page 302 - On behalf of myself and people I wish to send through you to the Great Mother the words I have given to the Governor at a Council held, at which my minor Chiefs and young men were present. We are agreed and determined to remain loyal to the Queen. Our young men will go to work on their...
Page 302 - I again send. We will be loyal to the Queen whatever happens. I have a copy of this, and when the trouble is over, will have it with pride to show to the Queen's Officers, and we leave our future in your hands. We have asked for nothing, but the Governor has given us a little present of tea and tobacco. He will tell you what other talk we had at our Council it was all good, not one bad word.
Page 253 - Gospel, thou worst and thou best; Tall Adam of lands, new-made of the dust of the West; Thou wroughtest alone in the Garden of God, unblest Till He fashioned lithe Freedom to lie for thine Eve on thy breast — Till out of thy heart's dear neighborhood, out of thy side. He fashioned an intimate Sweet one and brought thee a Bride. Cry hail ! nor bewail that the wound of her coming was...
Page 76 - Everything there is wonderfully neat and flourishing, it is a tme oasis in the desert. The cows fat and fine, the horses the same, the dogs, the very cats, the same. A well-arranged and well-kept garden, gay with many flowers — [some of them the commonest flowers of the woods and plains, brought to perfection by care and labour]. The house beautifully clean ; the meals served up as in a gentleman's dining-room. Excellent preserves of service-berries and wild raspberries ; — everything made use...
Page vi - Wild and wide are my borders, stern as death is my sway, And I wait for the men who will win me — and I will not be won in a day; And I will not be won by weaklings, subtle, suave and mild, But by men with the hearts of vikings, and the simple faith of a child...
Page 273 - I would look in silence at the road coming on— like a band of wild geese in the sky — cutting its way through the prairies; opening up the great country we thought would be ours for years. Like a vision I could see it driving my poor Indians before it, and spreading out behind it the farms, the towns and cities. . . . No one who has not lived in the west since the Old-Times can realize what is due to that road — that CPR It was Magic— like the mirage on the prairies, changing the face of...