Other slices of Canadian life included scenes of Niagara Falls, log-rolling, gap-toothed hockey players, and beer halls.

… what hangman hands / Pin to his breast a parchment? His own bands / Read it. Poor traitor, spit upon and curst!

Speak lower. Somebody may be on the watch — perhaps that old ginger-hackled Jew.

They cultivate, besides, various kinds of the tomatl or loveapple, and the pistachio or earthnut.