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Table of Contents

  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Prologue to South Ontario Sketches
  4. Reminiscences
  5. Birth of Canada as a Nation
  6. Welcome to the Prince of Wales
  7. Lament of the Maple Tree
  8. Lines on Violets
  9. Patriotic Ode
  10. Fight of a Buffalo with Wolves
  11. Disaster to Steamer Victoria at London
  12. Fight with a Bear in the Northwest
  13. Canadian Sports and Games and Plays
  14. Lines on Methodist Union
  15. Niagara’s Charms and Death of Capt. Webb
  16. St. Catharines
  17. Lines on Credit Valley Trip
  18. Lines on Canadian Hunter
  19. Hope for Ingersoll
  20. Canadian Rivers and Lakes
  21. Life in the Woods
  22. The Joys of Prairie Farmers
  23. Nova Scotia
  24. Port Stanley
  25. Donald Ross
  26. Port Burwell
  27. Lines on T. D. McGee
  28. London Flood
  29. London West
  30. Lines on Stratford
  31. English Names on Canadian Thames
  32. Lines on Beachville
  33. Lines on Ingersoll
  34. Lines on Woodstock
  35. Lines on Embro and Zorra
  36. Lines on Salford
  37. Lines on Thamesford
  38. Farrington, 1866, Factory System
  39. Lines on Tilsonburg
  40. Lines on Mt. Elgin
  41. Corner Stone Laying
  42. A Civic Holiday Trip
  43. Robert Fleming Gourley
  44. Odd Fellowship in Woodstock
  45. Odd Fellowship Lines Read at Concert
  46. London Children
  47. Caledonian Games
  48. Victoria Park and Caledonian Games
  49. The Great Fire of Ingersoll
  50. Our Firemen
  51. St. Thomas
  52. Masonic Lines Read at a Banquet
  53. Oxford Cheese Ode
  54. Lines on a Fountain
  55. A Concert Invitation
  56. Thomas Campbell
    1. Preface
    2. Thomas Campbell
  57. Poetry
  58. Lines on Col. Wonham
  59. Opening Ode
  60. Adventure on a Raft
  61. Canada Our Home
  62. Mrs. Moody
  63. Lines Addressed to an Old Bachelor
  64. Brantford
  65. The Power of Steam
  66. Lines on Thorold
  67. Musings on the Northwest
  68. Crimean War
  69. A Christmas Tree
  70. Dr. Springer
  71. Lines on A. B.
  72. Burns and Scott in Edinburgh
  73. Galt and Dunlop
  74. Agricultural Implements and Machinery
  75. Snake and Potato Bug
  76. A Rabbit Story
  77. Let Her Go
  78. An Autograph
  79. Lines on a Typewriter
  80. Impromptu
  81. Little Lake
  82. Advice to a Little Girl
  83. A Crooked Looking Glass
  84. A Providential Escape
  85. The Cheese Pioneer
  86. A Bird’s Nest
  87. Lines on Removal
  88. Departed Statesmen
  89. A Concert—Impromptu
    1. On White Brothers
    2. On Doctor Gardner
  90. In Memoriam
  91. Brodie Castle
  92. George Menzies’ Poems
  93. Female Revenge
  94. A Canadian Romance
  95. O for a Lodge
  96. Potato Bug Exterminators
  97. Dried Apples
  98. Wars in Queen Victoria’s Reign
  99. English Poets
    1. Tercentenary Ode on Shakespeare
    2. Milton
    3. Coleridge, Southey and Wordsworth
    4. Shelly
    5. Byron
    6. Tennyson
    7. Dryden and Pope
  100. Irish Poets
    1. Tim Moore
    2. T. D. McKee
    3. Oliver Goldsmith
  101. American Poets
    1. Longfellow
    2. Poe
    3. Lowell
    4. Bryant
    5. Whittier
    6. Saxe
    7. Will Carleton
    8. Millar
    9. Holmes
    10. Walt Whitman
  102. Scottish Poets
    1. Robert Burns
  103. Reply to the Toast of Scottish Poets
  104. Lines on South of Scotland
  105. The Shires on the Moray Frith
  106. Lines Read at St. Andrew’s Anniversary
  107. Lines on the North of Scotland
  108. Prince Charlie’s Grandsons
  109. Scottish Names in Oxford County
  110. Facts About Cheese
  111. Fairy Tale
  112. St. Andrew
  113. Halloween
  114. Lorne and Louise
  115. Elf Shot
  116. Gordon Cumming—The Lion Hunter
  117. Book Agent Story
  118. Harvest Home Festivals
    1. Episcopal Harvest Home
  119. Father Ranney, the Cheese Pioneer
  120. Hints to Cheese Makers
  121. Ode on the Mammoth Cheese
  122. McIntyre Has a Few Rows
  123. Canadian Thames
  124. The People All Say and Declare It Is True
  125. Lines on Gunn
  126. Indian Mutiny
  127. A Modern Wonder
  128. Electric Light
  129. Witch Stone
  130. Dick and Edward
  131. Questions and Answers
  132. Lines Read at a Ladies’ Aid
  133. Salford Parsonage
  134. Transformation Scene
  135. Lines on London
  136. Finale
  137. Canada Before the Confederation of the Provinces
  138. Canada’s Future
  139. Canada’s Resources
  140. Northwest Rebellion
  141. Big Bear the Indian Chief
  142. Province of Ontario
  143. Niagara Dry
  144. United by Steel Rails
  145. The Old Snake Fence
  146. Canadian Voyageurs on the Nile
  147. Land Clearing
  148. Lines Read at a Maple Sugar Social
  149. Canadian Charms
  150. Patriot Fighting for His Home
  151. Fighting for Conquest
  152. Lines Sent to Thomas Conant of Oshawa, a Writer of Canadian Sketches
  153. Lines Sent to Alexander McLaughlan, Amaranth Station, with a Copy of My Poems
  154. Holland River and Its Tributaries
  155. The Vale of Thames
  156. Ranney, 1856, Dairy System
  157. Lines Read at a Dairymen’s Supper
  158. Ensilage
  159. Fertile Lands and Mammoth Cheese
  160. Lines Read at a Dairymaids’ Social
  161. Windmills and Stone Stables
  162. Dairy Ode
  163. Cheese Curd for Bait
  164. Thanksgiving Ode
  165. When to Sell Grain and Farm Produce
  166. Four Acre Farm
  167. Eagle and Salmon
  168. Captain’s Adventure
  169. Indian Romance
  170. Origin of the Toboggan
  171. Bear and Falls
  172. Broken Raft Adventure
  173. Bear Hunt
  174. Coon Hunting
  175. Sailor’s Yarn
  176. Hunters and Trappers
  177. Wild Goose Shot at Midnight
  178. Adventures with Bears
  179. Queen’s Jubilee Ode
  180. Bear and Whale
  181. Gordon and Burnaby
  182. Poets and Philosophers
  183. James Hogg
  184. Highland Sketches
  185. Castle Gordon
  186. River Clyde
  187. Lofty Actors Withdraw
  188. United States
  189. Caledonia Springs, New York
  190. Local Sketches
  191. Brain Engravings
  192. Survival of the Fittest
  193. Motto
  194. Things Should Be Judged by Merit
  195. The Gates Ajar
  196. Child Made Happy
  197. Power of Love
  198. Her Lover’s Step
  199. The Useful Weed
  200. Golden Egg
  201. Little Dora
  202. Lines on the Death of a Farmer’s Wife
  203. Fighting for Home
  204. Every Rose Hath Its Thorn
  205. Danger of Fire Arms
  206. Bird Sent by Providence
  207. Help in Need
  208. Lines on the Finding of a Young Man’s Body in Toronto Bay
  209. Lines on a Lawn Party
  210. All Men Are Brothers
  211. The Good Man
  212. Lay of the Spring
  213. High in Masonry
  214. Tramp and Fish
  215. Seal Fishing and Hunting
  216. Snake and Its Young
  217. Whale and Its Foes
  218. Tiger and Elephant
  219. Strange Life Preserver
  220. Virtues of a Diamond Ring
  221. Child Saved by Dog
  222. Leach the Engineer
  223. Jackal and Child
  224. Little Hero
  225. Gray Hairs
  226. Good Shot
  227. Lost Son Found
  228. Shoe Black
  229. Duck and Oyster
  230. Baby Darling
  231. Riding an Avalanche
  232. Final Address to Our Patrons
  233. Card of Thanks to the Press
  234. Lines on Canada
  235. The Glorious Land of Maple Leaf
  236. Canadian Cheese Trade
  237. Peculiarities of Oxford County
  238. Prophecy of a Ten Ton Cheese
  239. Low Price of Cheese
  240. An Average Rule to Judge of Cheese
  241. Address to the Dairymen’s Association
  242. The Mammoth Cheese and Cheese Factories
    1. The Centennial Prize Winner
  243. Lines on a Hog
  244. Lines on a Big Ox
  245. Lines Written to Alderman Frankland
    1. Lines on the Pioneer Exporter of Canadian Bullocks to Britain
  246. The Patriotic Canadian Hen
  247. The Canadian Horse
  248. The Apiary
  249. Sheep
  250. Tile Drains
  251. Nickel Mines
  252. Mild Christmas
  253. The Steamboat
  254. Duties of Life
  255. Great Fire in Michigan
  256. Horace Greely and Mrs. Staunton
  257. Reflections After Reading “The Coming Race” and “Looking Backward”
  258. Raise High the Banner
  259. A Pleasing Illusion
  260. A Ghost Story
  261. Sir Walter Scott
    1. MacGregor’s Gathering
  262. Big Stag
  263. Eagle and Stag
  264. Fairy Tale
  265. Address to the Scottish Clans at Woodstock
  266. Lines on Colonel Wonham
  267. Murder of a Young Englishman
  268. Fair Day at Embro
  269. Decoration Day
  270. Strange Water Wheels at Beachville
  271. Fight in a Cave
  272. The Present Time
  273. The Rescue
  274. Lady Ann
  275. Tom Norton
  276. Fox Hunt Yarn
  277. The King and Peasant
  278. Spanish Donkey
  279. Child and Horse
  280. Mule and Bear Fight
  281. Bear and Buzzsaw
  282. Wooden Leg
  283. Alligator Rider
  284. Young Swell and Tramp
  285. Lightning Rod Agent
  286. Conquered by a Child
  287. Joined His Church
  288. Soldier and Gander
  289. Indian Wars
  290. Love in a Snowdrift
  291. Blanket Shield
  292. Dime Story
  293. Alligator and Boy
  294. Lines
  295. Lines
  296. Political
  297. The Flood on the Creek
  298. Big Crops of 1891
  299. Death of Parnell
  300. Short Route to the Orient
  301. Endnotes
  302. Colophon
  303. Uncopyright

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  1. Poetry
  2. Endnotes