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The Little Patched Trousers
How dear to my heart are the
pants of my childhood,
When fond recollections present
them to view,
The pants that I wore in the deep
tangled wildwood,
And likewise the groves where
the crab apple grew;
The wide spreading seat with the
little square patches,
The pockets that bulged with my
luncheon for noon
And also with marbles and fish-
worms and matches,
And gum-drops and kite-strings
from March until June;
The little patched trousers, the
made-over trousers,
The high-water trousers that
fit me too soon.
No pantaloons ever performed great-
er service
In filling the hearts of us young-
sters with joy;
They made the decent from Adol-
phus to Jervis,
Right down through a family of
ten little boys.
Through no fault of mine, known
to me or to others,
I'm the tenderest branch of our
big family tree,
They came down to me slightly
bagged at the knee.
CANADIAN TEACHER
[And typed 'as is' here.]
Published at Cascade, BC, in the Cascade Record, 1st June 1901, page 3.
Published in the Interests of the Boundary and Christina Lake Mining Districts
Published on Saturdays by H. S. Turner
$2.00 a year; $1.25 for 6 months; $2.50 to Foreign Countries
Incidentally, a notice in this issue said: THE CASCADE RECORD is offered for sale.
And indeed, the next month, 6th of July 1901, was the last issue.
The Editorial, page 2, said:
The writer has fought the battle of life in the treadmill of journalism for nearly 38 years, covering a range of territory extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, and now we take to the woods, having amassed a sufficient competency to enable us to lead a quiet comfortable life amid genuine rustic surroundings, provided we meet with ordinary success with hunting, fishing, and trapping.... More follows in this vein with a little journalist style humour.
His 1901 census entry, dated April 12-14 shows him as Henry S Turner, printer, born in Quebec 1849; with wife Marcella, born in the US 1850, who came to Canada in 1895, and son Morrills A., born in US, 1880, also a printer.
Now, I am KEEN to find out what happened. Printers taking to the woods? Really? Did they all love it in the woods? Did they make a success of it? Or did they get itchy feet? What happened? This is why we do genealogy....and stay up all night.
them to view,
The pants that I wore in the deep
tangled wildwood,
And likewise the groves where
the crab apple grew;
The wide spreading seat with the
little square patches,
The pockets that bulged with my
luncheon for noon
And also with marbles and fish-
worms and matches,
And gum-drops and kite-strings
from March until June;
The little patched trousers, the
made-over trousers,
The high-water trousers that
fit me too soon.
No pantaloons ever performed great-
er service
In filling the hearts of us young-
sters with joy;
They made the decent from Adol-
phus to Jervis,
Right down through a family of
ten little boys.
Through no fault of mine, known
to me or to others,
I'm the tenderest branch of our
big family tree,
They came down to me slightly
bagged at the knee.
CANADIAN TEACHER
[And typed 'as is' here.]
Published at Cascade, BC, in the Cascade Record, 1st June 1901, page 3.
Published in the Interests of the Boundary and Christina Lake Mining Districts
Published on Saturdays by H. S. Turner
$2.00 a year; $1.25 for 6 months; $2.50 to Foreign Countries
Incidentally, a notice in this issue said: THE CASCADE RECORD is offered for sale.
And indeed, the next month, 6th of July 1901, was the last issue.
The Editorial, page 2, said:
The writer has fought the battle of life in the treadmill of journalism for nearly 38 years, covering a range of territory extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, and now we take to the woods, having amassed a sufficient competency to enable us to lead a quiet comfortable life amid genuine rustic surroundings, provided we meet with ordinary success with hunting, fishing, and trapping.... More follows in this vein with a little journalist style humour.
His 1901 census entry, dated April 12-14 shows him as Henry S Turner, printer, born in Quebec 1849; with wife Marcella, born in the US 1850, who came to Canada in 1895, and son Morrills A., born in US, 1880, also a printer.
Now, I am KEEN to find out what happened. Printers taking to the woods? Really? Did they all love it in the woods? Did they make a success of it? Or did they get itchy feet? What happened? This is why we do genealogy....and stay up all night.
REFERENCES
The Cascade accessed on the University of British Columbia's Open Access BC Historical Newspapers Collection: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers
Census Reference:
Census Reference:
Year: 1901; Census Place: Kootenay (West/Ouest), (Rossland Riding/Division Rossland), Yale and Cariboo, British Columbia; Page: 2; Family No: 23. Ancestry.com. 1901 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Original data: Library and Archives Canada. Census of Canada, 1901. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, 2004. http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1901/Pages/about-census.aspxl. Series RG31-C-1. Statistics Canada Fonds.
Full description: Province: British Columbia; District: Yale and Cariboo; District Number: 5;
Sub-District: Kootenay (West/Ouest), (Rossland Riding/Division Rossland)
Sub-District Number: 12 Page 2.
Sub-District: Kootenay (West/Ouest), (Rossland Riding/Division Rossland)
Sub-District Number: 12 Page 2.
1 comment:
Love the poem! So easy to envision those pantaloons. I am keen to find out what your future research reveals :-)
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