...ony place beside. Among the woods o' Canada, We sought anither hame, But here or there, or onywhere, And oft when battlin' wi' the heat, Or weary winter's...They point to our shirtless backs, As the fruits of heer and gin. And they quote us texts to prove, That our hearts are hard as stone, And they feed us...

...Quick jingling comes the cattle-bell. These early poets are sometimes grim, like Alexander McLachlan: We live in a rickety house, In a dirty dismal street,...our shirtless backs, As the fruits of beer and gin. The hard Canadian winter has its moments of strenuous jollity, as in the Sugaring described by Pamphile...

...utopianism with a bitter proletarian protest: We live in a rickety house, In a dirty dismal street ... And pious folks with their tracts When our dens they...to our shirtless backs, As the fruits of beer and gin.21 This is not simple imitation. Notably, the Scots dialect has been washed out by the new local...

...Rickety House' We live in a rickety house, 1 In a dirty dismal street, Where the naked hide from the day, And thieves and drunkards meet. And pious folks with their tracts, 5 When our dens they enter in, They point to our shirtless backs, As the fruits of beer and gin. And...