Author:  John Campbell

Release Date:  January 16, 2006 [eBook #17532]

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ISO-646-us (us-ASCII)

***Start of the project gutenberg EBOOK two knapsacks***

E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Martin Pettit, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) from page images generously made available by Early Canadiana Online (http://www.canadiana.org/eco/index.html)

Note:  Images of the original pages are available through
      Early Canadiana Online.  See
      http://www.canadiana.org
/eco/ItemRecord/00387?id=5453f8c59767d369

TWO KNAPSACKS: 

A Novel of Canadian Summer Life.

by

J. CAWDOR bell.

Toronto
The Williamson Book Co., Ltd. 
Entered, according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in
the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, by the Williamson Book
Company, Limited, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture.

PUBLISHERS’ NOTE.

The Publishers have extreme pleasure in placing this novel, by a new and promising native author, before the reading public of Canada.  They will be greatly disappointed if it does not at once take its place among the best products of Canadian writers.  While the work has peculiar interest for Torontonians and dwellers in the districts so graphically described, its admirable character drawings of many “sorts and conditions” of our people—­its extremely clever dialect, representing Irish, Scotch, English, Canadian, French, Southern and Negro speech, and the working out of its story, which is done in such a way as would credit an experienced romancer—­should insure the book a welcome in very many homes.  The literary flavour is all that can be desired; the author evidencing a quite remarkable acquaintance with English Literature, especially with Wordsworth, the Poet of the Lake Country.

TWO KNAPSACKS: 

A Novel of Canadian Summer Life.

by

J. CAWDOR bell.

CHAPTER I.

     The Friends—­The Knapsacks—­The Queen’s Wharf—­The Northern
     Railway—­Belle Ewart—­The Susan Thomas, Captain and Crew—­Musical
     Performance—­The Sly Dog—­Misunderstanding—­Kempenfeldt Bay.