Of course it is always so in a new country; it was so in Ontario.

Why, the new settlers in Manitoba don't know what hardships mean in comparison with those that faced the early settlers in Ontario.

My father, when a little boy of ten years, went with his father into the solid forest; you don't know what that means in this country, and no one can who has not seen a solid mass of green reaching from the ground a hundred feet high without a break in it except where the trail enters.

Into that solid forest in single file went my grandfather, his two little boys, and one ox carrying a bag of flour, some pork and stuff.

By a mark on a tree they found the corner of their farm." Martin paused.
"Do go on," said Miss Brodie.