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TWO KNAPSACKS:

A Novel of Canadian Summer Life.

By J CAWDOR BELL.

TORONTO

THE WILLIAMSON BOOK CO., Ltd.

[Pg 2]Entered, according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, inthe year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, by the Williamson BookCompany, Limited, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture.

CONTENTS

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PUBLISHERS' NOTE.

The Publishers have extreme pleasure in placing this novel, by a new andpromising native author, before the reading public of Canada. They willbe greatly disappointed if it does not at once take its place among thebest products of Canadian writers. While the work has peculiar interestfor Torontonians and dwellers in the districts so graphically described,its admirable character drawings of many "sorts and conditions" of ourpeople—its extremely clever dialect, representing Irish, Scotch,English, Canadian, French, Southern and Negro speech, and the workingout of its story, which is done in such a way as would credit anexperienced romancer—should insure the book a welcome in very manyhomes. The literary flavour is all that can be desired; the authorevidencing a quite remarkable acquaintance with English Literature,especially with Wordsworth, the Poet of the Lake Country.

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TWO KNAPSACKS:

A Novel of Canadian Summer Life.

BY J. CAWDOR BELL.

CHAPTER I.

The Friends—The Knapsacks—The Queen's Wharf—The NorthernRailway—Belle Ewart—The Susan Thomas, Captain and Crew—MusicalPerformance—The Sly Dog—Misunderstanding—Kempenfeldt Bay.

Eugene Coristine and Farquhar Wilkinson were youngish bachelors andfellow members of the Victoria and Albert Literary Society. Thither, onWednesday evenings, when respectable church-members were wending theirway to weekly service, they hastened regularly, to meet with a band oflike-minded young men, and spend a literary hour or two. In various