Title : Songs of the Prairie
Author : Robert J. C. Stead
Illustrator : Elizabeth Colborne
Release date
: March 3, 2011 [eBook #35475]
Most recently updated: January 7, 2021
Language : English
Credits
: Produced by Barbara Watson and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
PAGE | |
THE PRAIRIE | 1 |
THE GRAMOPHONE | 4 |
THE PLOW | 8 |
THE MOTHERING | 12 |
HUSTLIN' IN MY JEANS | 15 |
THE HOMESTEADER | 20 |
VAIN SUITORS | 24 |
GOD'S SIGNALMAN | 26 |
GOING HOME | 32 |
JUST BE GLAD | 38 |
THE CANADIAN ROCKIES | 40 |
A PRAIRIE HEROINE | 42 |
THE SEER | 51 |
THE SON OF MARQUIS NODDLE | 56 |
THE PRODIGALS | 62 |
THE SQUAD OF ONE | 64 |
ALKALI HALL | 70 |
PRAIRIE BORN | 76 |
"A COLONIAL" | 81 |
LITTLE TIM TROTTER | 84 |
THE VORTEX | 86 |
THE OLD GUARD | 91 |
KID McCANN | 93 |
WHO OWNS THE LAND? | 99 |
A RACE FOR LIFE | 103 |
(
Lines suggested in the camp of the Alpine Club of Canada,
Sherbrooke Lake, B. C., August, 1911.
)
(
In some circles the term "colonial" is still allowed
to imply inferiority and dependence.
)
( As related for the benefit of the New Arrival. )
The following changes were made:
Page 15: An → An'
Page 16: an → an'
Page 20: moring → morning
Page 52: somtimes → sometimes
Page 70: Lorship → Lordship and Lorship → Lordship
Page 87: wised → wished
Page 92: and they were the
the
ones to pay.
→ and they were
the
ones to pay.
Page 94: prarie → prairie
Page 100: Stateman → Statesman
Page 105: kew → knew
There were 3 stanzas of 12 lines in the midst of poems where the rest of the stanzas are 6 lines. They have been split into 6 line stanzas. The stanzas are:
Page 35: The room was warm and cosy, and the light was soft and low,
Page 93: So you never heard how I lost my leg and hobble now on a crutch?
Page 96: How long I lay I could never tell, for the hours were days to me,
Minor variations in spelling and punctuation have been preserved.