Offered “in all proper fear and humility” to her Canadian public, Harrison’s sketches mix true incidents with fancy. A struggling Canadian writer is crowded out in London, a French couple keep a pea-green parrot, a bishop rules the far diocese of Saskabasquia, and settlers and newcomers meet the Canadian wilderness in stories of homesickness, humour and pride.
A pioneering collection of Canadian short fiction from 1886, by the poet who wrote as Seranus. Download the free EPUB.