Category: Novels
"We have felt the cold of winter--cursed by those who know it not-- We have braved the blizzard's vengeance, dared its most deceptive plot; We have learned that hardy races grow from hardy circumstance, And we face a dozen dangers to attend a country dance; Though our means ar...
"We have felt the cold of winter--cursed by those who know it not-- We have braved the blizzard's vengeance, dared its most deceptive plot; We have learned that hardy races grow...
4. CHAPTER IV--CROTTON'S CROSSING"We have heard the cattle lowing in the silent summer nights; We have smelt the smudge-fire fragrance--we have seen the smudge-fire lights-- We have heard the wild duck grumblin...
7. CHAPTER VII--ONLY A BARNARDO BOY"They'll abuse him as a youngster, they will mock him as a man, They'll make his life a thorny path in every way they can, Till he curses his existence and the day that it began...
17. CHAPTER XVII--THE HOMESTEAD LINE"Where'er Endeavour bares her arm, And grapples with the Things To Be, At desk or counter, forge or farm, On veldt or prairie, land or sea, And men press onward, undismayed, The...
16. CHAPTER XVI--KIT MCKAY"Ned McCann owned the Double Star 'way back in the early days; He had come out here with a sickly wife and a kid he hoped to raise Where the climate suited the feeble-lunged, bu...
5. CHAPTER V--UNDER SUSPICION"'Thou shalt not steal,' the Law declares, and the sinner must pay the price, For the world abhors the petty thief who falls to the common vice, But the rich and the good and th...
18. CHAPTER XVIII--RIGHT ABOUT FACE"Oh, can I doubt the Power that leads You safe from zone to zone, Is mindful of the man He made In image of His own; That though we blindly breast the gale, Or skirt the shores...
15. CHAPTER XV--STILL PLAYING THE GAMEThe harvest was at its height. Blood-red the sun rose every morning to plough its silent way across an ocean of polished steel, while white cloud-swans, with ruffled plumage, fl...
14. CHAPTER XIV--THE SACRIFICE OF SILENCE"Greater than the measure of the heroes of renown, He is building for the future, and no hand can hold him down; Though they count him but a common man, he holds the Outer Gate,...
2. CHAPTER II--SECRETS OF SUCCESS"I envy no man what he fairly wins; In life's hard battle each must fight his fight; But some, methinks, are honoured for their sins, And some ignored because they do the right;...
10. CHAPTER X--PLAYING THE GAME"Hear ye a little lesson--can ye the truth divine? Milk ye may mix with water, and water will mix with wine; Mix as ye may on your prairies, mix in your hope and toil, But know...
12. CHAPTER XII--LOVE--OR LAW?"They say there is wealth in the doing, That royal and rich are the gains, But 'tisn't the wealth I am wooing, So much as the life of the plains; For here in the latter day morn...
13. CHAPTER XIII--GROPING"Then I gave him hopes he could not define and fears that he could not flee; And he heard my cry in the long, still night, In my spirit-thrall I held him tight, And his blind so...
9. CHAPTER IX--A FUGITIVE"Ever the sun sets in the west; Yellow and gold; Ever a face to a window prest; Can it behold, Large in the lens of the dying light, Wandering boy, in joy or plight, Trudging st...
19. CHAPTER XIX--THE LIGHT AT LAST"And though on Life's uncertain sea, We veer and tack in stormy stress, I doubt not in the years to be The generations will agree, We sailed direct to blessedness!"
11. CHAPTER XI--A FRIEND IN NEED"Oh, I take 'em from the counter, the factory, the mine, They are rough-and-ready rascals till I lick 'em into line; They are coming, coming, coming, from the land of Who-Knows-...
8. CHAPTER VIII--A MYSTERIOUS ACQUAINTANCE"There are times when most folks figure that their life has been a blank; You may be a homeless hobo or director of a bank, But the thought will catch you nappin'--catch you som...
6. CHAPTER VI--THE ARM OF THE LAW"All things are in the Beginning, All things are to the End, Though few may know the secret, And none may comprehend; And some must paint in error. And some must paint aright; F...
3. CHAPTER III--TWO ON THE TRAIL"We have felt the April breezes warm along the plashy plains; We have mind-marked to the cadence of the falling April rains; We have heard the crash of water where the snow-fed...