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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Beyond the Marshes + + +Author: Ralph Connor + + + +Release Date: March 1, 2008 [eBook #24724] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEYOND THE MARSHES*** + + +E-text prepared by Al Haines + + + +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. + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEYOND THE MARSHES*** + + +******* This file should be named 24724.txt or 24724.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/7/2/24724 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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