gravelly hills and plains.

Nurse Frazer brought Lady Mary some sweetmeats, flavored with an extract
of the spicy winter green, from the confectioner's shop; the Canadians
being very fond of the flavor of this plant. The Indians chew the leaves,
and eat the ripe mealy berries, which have something of the taste of the
bay-laurel leaves. The Indian men smoke the leaves as tobacco.

One day, while Mrs. Frazer was at work in the nursery, her little charge
came to her in a great state of agitation--her cheeks were flushed, and
her eyes were dancing with joy; she threw herself into her arms, and said,
"Oh! dear nurse, I am going home to dear old England and Scotland. Papa
and mamma are going away from Government House, and I am to return to the
old country with them; I am so glad, are not you?"

But the tears gathered in Mrs. Frazer's eyes and fell fast upon the work
she held in her hand. Lady Mary looked surprised, when she saw how her
kind nurse was weeping.

"Nurse, you are to go too; mamma says so; now you need not cry, for you
are not going to leave me."

"I cannot go with you, my dearest child," whispered her weeping
attendant, "much as I love you; for I have a dear son of my own. I have
but him, and it would break my heart to part from him;" and she softly put
aside the bright curls from Lady Mary's fair forehead, and tenderly kissed
her. "This child is all I have in the world to love me, and when his
father, my own kind husband, died, he vowed to take care of me, and
cherish me in my old age, and I promised that I would never leave him; so
I cannot go away from Canada with you, my lady, though I dearly love you."