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| The MacMillans Company of Canada, 1926 |
The Biblio-Mat at The Monkey's Paw gave me this old and unusual book.
It would be easy to sentimentalize, for there is everything here--the echo of mountains, and soaring skies, and small rushing streams (that we see in the movies, and read of in best-sellers made in the United States about Canada). And this cabin-house fits in so perfectly. It is log built and raftered, with a pointed barn roof, and a typical huge stone fireplace. Skins of cariboo, timber wolf, and marmot hang on the walls, and an enormous burdash robe, rarest of possessions, is the hearthrug. Over the fireplace is the head of an antelope, the last one legally killed in British Columbia; above it is a queer old Buffalo skull; a sheep's head is over the door. Tawney striped denim is hung on the windows; and there are saffron cushions, making the rustic furniture comfortable as well as picturesque; wrought iron candelabra, and straw gleams of light from copper bowls and bits of rock crystal. The front front door opens into the living-room, and there is a short curved staircase of jack pine, leading to a little gallery from which you can watch sunlight or open fire warm the savage little place.
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