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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, Beyond the Marshes, by Ralph Connor
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+Title: Beyond the Marshes
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+Author: Ralph Connor
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+Release Date: March 1, 2008  [eBook #24724]
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+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEYOND THE MARSHES***
+
+
+E-text prepared by Al Haines
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+
+
+BEYOND THE MARSHES
+
+by
+
+RALPH CONNOR
+
+Author of "Black Rock" and "The Sky Pilot"
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+The Westminster Company Limited
+Publishers
+Toronto
+
+Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one
+thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, by The Westminster Company,
+Limited, at the Department of Agriculture.
+
+
+
+
+Have you ever caught the scent of the clover as you were whirled away
+by the train beyond the city on a summer's day and sped through the
+rich pasture lands?  And do you remember how you stepped forth at the
+first halting-place to secure a sprig of the sweet, homely flower that
+had spoken to you so eloquently in its own language, and how you
+pressed it in your book?  Does not its perfume remain with you till
+this day?  And every now and then a fragrance is wafted to our inner
+senses as we read some simple story which is to us as a breath of the
+clover, bringing us a message of sweetness and beauty, and going
+straight to our hearts with the power that belongs to the secrets which
+lie hidden at our lifers core.
+
+And this sweet prairie idyll is surely one of those fragrant messages
+which lays its hold on us as we pause for a moment in the midst of our
+fevered lives and anxious thoughts, and step across the threshold of
+that chamber where we must needs put our shoes from off our feet, for
+the place whereon we stand is holy ground.  And as we press on again to
+life's duties, may we bear with us something of the precious perfume
+diffused by plants which are divine in their origin and which must be
+divine in their influence.
+
+ISHBEL ABERDEEN
+
+
+[Transcriber's note: "ISHBEL" is correct.  It is not "ISABEL",
+misspelled.]
+
+
+
+
+BEYOND THE MARSHES
+
+
+The missionary of the Bonjour field found me standing bag in hand upon
+the railway platform watching my train steam away to the east.  He is
+glad to see me.  I am of his own kind, and there are so few of his kind
+about that his welcome is strong and warm.  He is brown and spare and
+tough-looking.  For six months he has driven along the pitching trails
+and corduroy roads, drenched by rains, scorched by suns, and pursued by
+the flies.  As to the flies there is something to be said.  They add
+much to the missionary's burden, and furnish unequaled opportunity for
+the exercise of the Christian graces of patience and self-control.  In
+early spring they appear, and throughout the whole summer they continue
+in varying forms, but in unvarying persistence and ferocity.  There are
+marsh flies, the bulldogs, "which take the piece right out," the gray
+wings, the blue devils (local name), which doubtless take several
+pieces right out, the mosquitoes, unsleeping, unmerciful, unspeakable,
+the sand flies, which go right in and disappear, and the black flies.
+
+"When do _they_ go away?" I asked a native.
+
+"Oh, them black fellows go away on snow-shoes."
+
+These each and all have taken a nip and a suck from the missionary as
+he pushed on by night and by day through their savage territory.  I
+glance at him, and sure enough they seem to have got all the juice out
+of him, but they have left the sinew and the bone.  His nerve, too, is
+all there, and his heart is sound and "under his ribs," which one of
+his admiring flock considers the right spot.
+
+It is Saturday afternoon, and we are to drive to the farthest of his
+three stations to be ready for the Communion Service there, at
+half-past ten to-morrow morning.
+
+"Where does it lie?" I ask.
+
+"Oh, away beyond the Marshes," was the answer.  Every one evidently
+knows where the Great Marshes are.
+
+But first we must drink a delicious cup of tea from a brave young
+Scotchwoman, who has learned the trick of making a home for her husband
+and babies amid the limitations of Canadian wilds, little like the
+Edinburgh home where she herself was a baby, and which she left not so
+very long ago.
+
+Then we must take a look at the new manse of which the missionary feels
+he has the right to be modestly proud, for it is mostly the work of his
+own hand.  He, like his great Master, is a carpenter, and day and night
+in the pauses of his preaching and visiting and studying, he has
+wrought at it, getting such help as he can, till there it stands, among
+the trees, the little cottage manse, announcing to all that the mission
+has come to stay.  The _front room_, with writing-desk, book-shelf,
+table, all of the missionary's making, does for reception and dining
+room, study, and parlor.  Behind it is the kitchen, with ingenious
+cupboards; and opening off from this the bedroom, five by seven, with
+bedstead and washstand, both home-made, and both nailed fast to the
+wall.  Altogether a snug little, tight little house, going a long way
+to content one with being a bachelor.
+
+And now we hitch up Golddust, and are off through the glorious yellow
+light and purple haze of this September afternoon.  Golddust is the
+missionary's horse, and evidently the missionary's weakness.  His name,
+and as his owner thinks his speed, his spirit, and other
+characteristics, he inherits from his sire, Old Golddust of Western
+racing fame.  Old Golddust, if he has transmitted his characteristics,
+must have been a horse of singular modesty, for his son continues
+resolutely unwilling throughout this drive to make any display of his
+nobler qualities.  By an extraordinary piece of good fortune, due to an
+evil but unfair report of Golddust in his young days, "they didn't know
+how to handle him." the missionary had bought him for twenty-five
+dollars!  One result of the deal has been an unlimited confidence on
+the part of the missionary in his own horse-dealing instinct.  It is
+quite true that Golddust has not always shown his present mild and
+trustful disposition.  Indeed, the missionary goes on to tell how,
+being loaned for a day to a brother missionary up west, the horse had
+returned in the evening much excited, but not much the worse, with a
+pair of shafts dangling at his heels.  The missionary brother did not
+appear till the day following, and then in a shocking bad temper.  "He
+was a Methodist brother, and didn't understand horses"; and the happy,
+far-away look in the face of his present owner led me to doubt whether
+that day's exploit had lowered Golddust in his estimation.
+
+Meantime we are drinking deep of the delights of this mellow afternoon.
+On either side of our trail lie yellow harvest fields, narrow, like
+those of eastern Canada, and set in frames of green poplar bluffs that
+rustle and shimmer under the softly going wind.  Then on through
+_scrub_ we go, bumping over roots and pitching through holes, till we
+suddenly push out from the scrub, and before us lie the Marshes.  There
+they sweep for miles away, with their different grasses waving and
+whispering under the steady blowing breeze, first the red-top, then as
+the soil grows wet the blue-joint and the swamp grass, and out of the
+standing water the dark green reeds, and farthest in the tall, wild
+cane bowing its stately, tasseled head.  These red-top and blue-joint
+reaches are the hay-lands of the settlers about.
+
+Skirting the edge of the Marshes, we push again through straggling
+scrub, then past more marshes, and into woods where we follow a winding
+trail till it leads us into a little clearing.  In the center of the
+clearing stands a cluster of log buildings--stables of different kinds,
+milk-house, the old shanty, and at a little distance the new house, all
+looking snug and trim.  Through the bars we drive into the yard filled
+with cattle, for the milking time is on.
+
+A shy lad of ten, with sun-burned, freckled face and good blue eyes,
+comes forward and is greeted as "Donald" by the missionary.
+
+"Hello, Donald, how are you?" I ask, opening the conversation.  Donald
+looks at me and is inaudible, meanwhile unhitching Golddust with
+marvelous rapidity.
+
+"How many cattle have you, Donald?" I venture again.
+
+Donald evidently considered this a reasonable question, for he answers
+in delicious Scotch:
+
+"Abou-e-t the-r-r-h-ty."
+
+What a pity we can find no spelling to reproduce that combination of
+guttural and aspirate and the inimitable inflection of voice.  It is so
+delightful that I ask him again, and again the answer comes with even
+more emphasis upon guttural and aspirate, and an added curve to the
+inflection:
+
+"Abou-e-t the-r-r-h-ty."
+
+My heart goes out to him, and watching his neat, quick work with
+Golddust, I begin to understand the look of thrift about the yard.  It
+is the mark of the "weel daein" Scot.
+
+We go up to the door of the new log house.  Before the door are two
+broad, flat stones washed clean.  "Scotch again," I say to myself.  Had
+I not seen them in many a Scotch village in front of the little stone
+cottages, thatched and decked with the climbing rose!
+
+The door is opened by Mrs. McPhail.  That is not her name, of course.
+I am not going to outrage the shy modesty of that little woman by
+putting her name in bold print for all the world to see.  A dear little
+woman she is, bowed somewhat with the burden of her life, but though
+her sweet face is worn and thin, it is very bright, and now it is aglow
+with welcome to her friend the missionary.  She welcomes me, too, but
+with a gentle reserve.  She is ready enough to give of her heart's
+wealth, but only to those she has learned to trust.  And my friend has
+gained a full reward for his six months' work in that he has won this
+woman's willing trust.  When the flush called up by the greeting dies,
+I see how pale she is, and I wonder how the winds and frosts and fierce
+suns have left so little trace upon the face of a Manitoba farmer's
+wife.  I understand this later, but not now.
+
+When she was a girl, her hair was thick and fair, but now it is white
+and thin, and is drawn smoothly back and fastened in a decent little
+knot behind.  Her eyes, once bright and blue, are blue still, but
+faded, for tears, salt and hot, have washed out the color.  She wears a
+flannel dress, simple and neat; and the collar at the neck and the
+lace-edged kerchief at the breast and the tidy daintiness of all about
+her make her a picture of one who had been in her youth "a weel
+brocht-up lass."
+
+Her house is her mirror.  The newly plastered, log-built walls are
+snow-white, the pine floor snow-white, and when the cloth is spread for
+tea, it, too, is snow-white.  Upon the wall hangs a row of graduated
+pewter platter covers.  How pathetically incongruous are they on the
+walls of this Canadian log house!  But they shine.  The table and the
+chairs shine.  The spoons and knives and glasses and dishes shine,
+glitter.  The whole kitchen is spotless, from the white window blinds
+to the white floor, and there is a glitter on every side, from the
+pathetic pewter covers on the wall to the old silver teaspoons upon the
+table.
+
+Mr. McPhail comes in, a small man with a quiet, husky voice and a
+self-respecting manner.  His eye is clear and dark blue, and has a look
+of intellect in it.  When he speaks he has a way of looking straight
+into you with a steady, thoughtful gaze.  A man would find it equally
+difficult to doubt or to deceive him.  The pioneer life has bowed his
+body and subdued his spirit, but the whole mass of his trials and the
+full weight of his burdens have not broken his heart's courage, nor
+soured its sweetness, nor dimmed his hope in God.
+
+We are invited to tea with an air of apologetic cordiality.  The food
+is fit for princes--home-made bread white and flaky, butter yellow and
+sweet, eggs just from the nest, and cream.  There is cream enough for
+your tea, for fruit, and to drink!  Cake there is, too, and other
+dainties; but not for me.  No cake nor dainty can tempt me from this
+bread and butter.  Queen Victoria has not better this night.  I much
+doubt if she has as good!  God bless her!
+
+At the head and foot of the table sit the father and mother, and
+Alexander, Jean, and Donald, with the missionary and myself, make up
+the company.  The children take their tea in silence but for a
+whispered request now and then, or a reply to some low-toned direction
+from the mother.  They listen interested in their elders' talk, and
+hugely amused at the jokes.  There is no pert interjection of smart
+sayings, so awful in ill-trained children of ill-bred parents.  They
+have learned that ancient and almost forgotten doctrine that children
+should be seen.  I tell my best stories and make my pet jokes just to
+see them laugh.  They laugh, as they do everything else, with a gentle
+reserve; and occasionally Jean, a girl of fifteen, shy like the rest,
+pulls herself up with a blush lest she has been unduly moved to
+laughter.  The mother presides over all with a quiet efficiency, taking
+keen, intelligent interest in the conversation, now and then putting a
+revealing question, all the while keeping a watchful eye upon the
+visitors' plates lest they should come near being empty.
+
+The talk goes back to the old times.  But these people talk with
+difficulty when their theme is themselves.  But my interest and
+questions draw their story from them.
+
+Fifteen years ago the father and mother left the cozy Glasgow home and
+the busy life of that busy city, and came over sea and land with their
+little girl and baby boy to Winnipeg.  There they lived for two years,
+till with the land-yearning in their hearts they came out from the town
+to this far-back spot away beyond the Marshes.  Here they cut out of
+the forest their home, and here they have lived amid the quiet, cool
+woods ever since, remote from the bustle and heat of the great world.
+
+"Why to this place instead of to any other?" I ask.
+
+"There was the hay from the Marshes to be sold, and the wood, too,"
+answered the little man.  "But," he went on, "I could not make much out
+of the wood, and I was too old to learn, so I gave it up, and went into
+Winnipeg to work at my trade.  And, indeed," he added cheerfully, "I
+made very good wages of it."
+
+I look at him and think of the day when he gave up the fight with the
+wood, and came in beaten to tell his wife how he must go to the city.
+I know she smiled at him, her heart going down the while, and cheered
+him, though she was like to despair at the thought of the lonely
+winter.  Ah, the pathos of it!  Did God help them that day?  Ay, and
+for many a day after.  And may He forgive all people whose lives
+overflow with plenty of everything, and who fret their souls for petty
+ills.
+
+Through the winter the snow piled up round the shanty where lived the
+little fair-haired woman and her little girl of nine years and two
+babies now, thinking, talking, dreaming, weeping, waiting for the
+spring and the home-coming of the father.  One of the horses died, and
+the other was sold.  Their places were taken by oxen.  "And the oxen
+are really very good; I like to work with the oxen," says the little
+man, with heroic Scotch philosophy and invincible content.  He cannot
+have the best; he will make the best of what he can have.  Again, may
+God forgive us who fling down tools because they are not the best, and
+refuse to work, and fret instead.
+
+Those days are all gone, but they are not yet passed out of the life of
+this family.  They have left their stamp on heart and character of
+these steadfast, gentle people, for they are a part of all that they
+have met.
+
+After tea I am told that I have not yet seen Katie, and the manner of
+telling makes me feel that there is something in store for me.  And so
+there is.  I am taken across a narrow hall and into another room,
+spotless as the kitchen, the same white walls, white floor, and dainty
+curtains.  This is Katie's room, and there upon a bed lies Katie
+herself.  I have come into the heart of the home.
+
+Katie is the eldest of the family.  She is the little girl of nine that
+stayed through the long winter with the mother, and helped her with the
+babies inside and the beasts outside, and was the cheer and comfort of
+the house, while the father was away in Winnipeg, brave little girl
+that she was.  She is now twenty-four, and for the last nine years she
+has suffered from a mysterious and painful illness, and now for
+eighteen months she has lain upon her bed and she cannot rise.  We all
+have in us the beast feeling that shrinks from the weak and wounded;
+but when I look at Katie there is no shrinking in me.  Her face has not
+a sign of fretful weakness.  It seems as if it had caught the glitter
+of the home, of the pewter covers, and the old silver teaspoons.  It is
+bright.  That is its characteristic.  The broad brow is smooth, and the
+mouth, though showing the lines of suffering--what control these lines
+suggest!--is firm and content.  The dark eyes look out from under their
+straight black brows with a friendly searching.  "Come near," they say;
+"are you to be trusted?" and you know you are being found out.  But
+they are kindly eyes and full of peace, with none of that look in them
+that shows when the heart is anxious or sore.  The face, the mouth, the
+eyes, tell the same tale of a soul that has left its storms behind and
+has made the haven, though not without sign of the rough weather
+without.
+
+There is no sick-room feeling here.  The coverlet, the sheets, the
+night-dress, with frills at the breast and wrists--everything about
+Katie is sweet and fresh.  Every morning of her life she is sponged and
+dressed and "freshed up a bit" by her mother's loving hands.  It takes
+an hour to do it, and there are many household cares; but what an hour
+that is!  What talk, what gentle, tearful jokes, what tender touches!
+The hour is one of sacrament to them both, for He is always there in
+whose presence they are reverent and glad.
+
+We "take the books," and I am asked to be priest.  One needs his holy
+garments in a sanctuary like this.  After the evening worship is over I
+talk with Katie.
+
+"Don't you feel the time long?  Don't you grow weary sometimes?"
+
+"No!  Oh, no!" with slight surprise.  "I am content."
+
+"But surely you get lonely--blue now and then?"
+
+"Lonely?" with the brightest of smiles.  "Oh, no!  They are all here."
+
+Heaven forgive me!  I had thought she perhaps might have wanted some of
+the world's cheerful distraction.
+
+"But was it always so?  Didn't you fret at the first?" I persisted.
+
+"No, not at _the first_."
+
+"That means that bad times came afterwards?"
+
+"Yes," she answers slowly, and a faint red comes up in her cheek as if
+from shame.  "After the first six months I found it pretty hard."
+
+I wait, not sure what thoughts I have brought to her, and then she goes
+on:
+
+"It was hard to see my mother tired with the work, and Jean could not
+get to school"; and she could go no further.
+
+"But that all passed away?" I asked, after a pause.
+
+"Oh, yes!" and her smile says much.  It was the memory of her triumph
+that brought her smile, and it illumined her face.
+
+My words came slowly.  I could not comfort where comfort was not
+needed.  I could not pity, facing a smile like that; and it seemed hard
+to rejoice over one whose days were often full of pain.  But it came to
+me to say:
+
+"He has done much for you; and you are doing much for Him."
+
+"Yes: He has done much for me."  But she would go no further.  Her
+service seemed small to her, but to me it seemed great and high.  We,
+in our full blood and unbroken life, have our work, our common work,
+but this high work is not for us--we are not good enough.  This He
+keeps for those His love makes pure by pain.  This would almost make
+one content to suffer.
+
+Next morning we all went to the little log school, where the Communion
+service was to be held--all but the father and Katie.
+
+"You have done me much good," I could not but say before I left; "and
+you are a blessing in your home."
+
+The color rose in her pale cheek, but she only said:
+
+"I am glad you were sent to us."
+
+Then I came away, humbly and softly, feeling as if I had been in a holy
+place, where I was not worthy to stand.  And a holy place it will ever
+be to me--the white room, the spotless white room, lit by the glory of
+that bright, sweet, patient face.  At the Table that day the mother's
+face had the same glory--the glory of those that overcome, the
+reflection of the glory to follow.  Happy, blessed home!  The snows may
+pile up into the bluff and the blizzards sweep over the whistling reeds
+of the Marshes, but nothing can chill the love or dim the hopes that
+warm and brighten the hearts in the little log house Beyond the
+Marshes, for they have their source from that high place where love
+never faileth and hopes never disappoint.
+
+
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