Epigraph
“I sketch from Nature, and the draught is true.
Whate’er the picture, whether grave or gay,
Painful experience in a distant land
Made it mine own.”
Dedication
TO
JOHN WEDDERBURN DUNBAR MOODIE, ESQ.
SHERRIFF OF THE COUNTY OF HASTINGS,
UPPER CANADA,
THIS WORK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED,