"There is something good and pretty to be found everywhere, my dear
child, if people will but open their eyes to see it, and their hearts to
enjoy the good things that God has so mercifully spread abroad for us and
all his creatures to enjoy. But Canada is really a fine country, and is
fast becoming a great one."


[Relocated Footnote: Arbutus ursursi--"Kinnikinnick," Indian name.

There is a story about a bear and an Indian hunter, which will show how
bears eat berries. It is from the Journal of Peter Jacobs, the Indian
Missionary:--

"At sunrise, next morning," he says, "we tried to land, but the water was
so full of shoals, we could not without wading a great distance.

"The beach before us was of bright sand, and the sun was about, [Footnote:
We find some curious expressions in this Journal, for Peter Jacobs is an
Indian, writing not his own, but a foreign language.] when I saw an object
moving on the shore; it appeared to be a man, and seemed to be making
signals of distress. We were all weary and hungry, but thinking it was a
fellow-creature in distress, we pulled towards him. Judge of our surprise
when the stranger proved to be an enormous bear.

"He was seated on his hams, and what we thought his signals were his
raising himself on his hind legs to pull down the berries from a high
bush, and, with his paws full sitting down again to eat them at his
leisure.

"Thus he continued daintily enjoying his ripe fruit in the posture some