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66 Cut word Que-beck and Montreal. The poorer immigrants, however, resolved to brave the dangers of the long journey in hopes that before they reached the colder regions spring would set in and dissolve the wintery snows.

  Horses were purchased and temporary sledges made, to carry their effects, consisting of carts, ploughs and all other implements used in agriculture, with furniture and kitchen utensils sufficient for the log cabins they proposed to build. The women and children were warmly wrapped up in furs, and taking their seats in the ride sleighs, all set out with cheerfulness for their distant new homes, notwithstanding the certainty of a long and tedious winter's travel. This was in the fall of the year 1822.
  Among those who thus resolved to accomplish their first intentions was John Tully, with his wife and two sons (the eldest being the subject of my present narative). He was a bold and hardy farmer, and being posessed of a fair share of written knowledge, with greater natural mental abilities, his companions chose him as their leader, and submitted entirely to his judgment and guidance in every thing connected with their expedition.
  It would be impossible for one not of the party to describe all the hair-breadth escapes, the anxiety and the sufferings of these bold adventurers. The spring was far advanced, and the summer's eve had begun to invigorate the stunted vegetation when they arrived at Pembina. As soon as the fa- cut word