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    Humour of the North
    Humour of the North
    Humour of the North
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    Humour of the North

    By Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone) Burpee

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Humour of the North - Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone) Burpee

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Humour of the North, by Lawrence J. Burpee

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      Title: Humour of the North

      Author: Lawrence J. Burpee

      Release Date: April 11, 2008 [EBook #25041]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HUMOUR OF THE NORTH ***

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      HUMOUR OF THE NORTH

      SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY

      LAWRENCE J. BURPEE

      TORONTO

      THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY

      LIMITED

      Entered at

      Stationers' Hall 1912

      INTRODUCTORY NOTE

      Some day an enterprising editor may find time to glean from the whole field of Canadian literature a representative collection of wit and humour. It would include the productions of such acknowledged humorists as Thomas Chandler Haliburton and George Thomas Lanigan, as well as specimens of characteristic humour from writers who are better remembered by their more serious work. It would also include a great deal of genuine wit and humour, largely anonymous, in such Canadian periodicals as Grip, Punch in Canada, the Grumbler, the Free Lance, and Diogenes; and characteristic passages from the speeches of such brilliant and witty debaters as Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Joseph Howe, and Nicholas Flood Davin. The present little collection obviously makes no such ambitious claim. It embraces, however, what are believed to be representative examples of the work of some of our better-known writers, many of which will no doubt be quite familiar to Canadian readers, but perhaps none the less welcome on that account.

      For permission to reproduce these selections the Editor is indebted to the authors or their representatives, and in the case of the late Dr. Drummond he is also indebted to the publishers, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. The selection from Joseph Howe's work is taken from his Poems and Essays; Haliburton's sketches are taken from The Old Judge; those of Dr. Drummond from The Habitant, Johnnie Courteau, and The Voyageur; that of Mrs. Cotes from her Social Departure; McCarroll's poem from Madeleine; Lanigan's Fables from the little volume published under that title; and DeMille's selection from The Dodge Club. Lanigan's humorous verse was never brought together in book form.

      Ottawa,

      August, 1910.

      CONTENTS

      HUMOUR OF THE NORTH

      THE BLUE NOSE

      Let the Student of Nature in rapture descant,

      On the Heaven's cerulean hue;

      Let the Lover indulge in poetical rant,

      When the eyes of his Mistress are blue.

      But fill high your glasses—fill, fill to the brim,

      I've a different toast to propose:

      While such eyes, and such skies, still are beaming for him,

      Here's a health to the jolly Blue Nose.

      Let the Frenchman delight in his vine-covered vales,

      Let the Greek toast his old classic ground;

      Here's the land where the bracing Northwester prevails,

      And where jolly Blue Noses abound.

      Long—long may it flourish, to all of us dear,

      Loved and honoured by hearts that are true;

      But, should ever a foe chance his nose to show here

      He shall find all our Noses true Blue.

      TO MARY

      Oh! blame me not, Mary, for gazing at you,

      Nor suppose that my thoughts from the Preacher were straying,

      Tho' I stole a few glances—believe me 'tis true—

      They were sweet illustrations of what he was saying.

      For, when he observed that Perfection was not

      To be found upon Earth—for a moment I bent

      A look upon you—and could swear on the spot

      That perfection in Beauty was not what he meant.

      And when, with

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