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The Halcyon in Canada. 



A CAI.feCHE. 



The cattle in the fields and by the road-side looked very small 

 and delicate, the effect, no doubt, of the severe climate. We saw 

 many rude implements of agriculture, — such as wooden plows shod 

 with iron. We passed several parties of men, women, and children 

 from Quebec, picnicking in the " bush." Here it was little more 

 than a "bush"; but while in Canada, we never heard the woods 

 designated by any other term. I noticed, also, that when a distance 

 of a few miles or of a fraction of a mile is to be designated, the French 

 Canadian does not use the term miles, but says it's so many acres 

 through or to the next place. 



