Clan Fraser in Canada

&6 "COUSIN SANDY.''
The boy was confined in a water-cask for bad conduct.
" And the wave cleared the deck of the vessel, and she
Like one half 'seas over' rolled about in the sea.
Then a shriek was heard, and the boatswain roar'd
' There's Bill and the tub gone overboard!' "
He floated to shore after an interview with a shark, a
cow switched her tail against the tub, and Bill caught it while
the cow fled, and wrecked the tub, but saved Bill's life, although
he remained unconscious.
" But was roused from his swoon by a beautiful Yankee
Who brought dough-nuts and tea, it was genuine Twankay.
An angel of light in the garb of humanity,
And that garb of the Saxony's best superfine,
What her countrymen term the 'real genuine.'
Bill was charmed and concluded, with some show of reason,
That to her annexation could never be treason."
And he was annexed in due time.
We have some poets still living, Gordon Fraser, John W«
Fraser, and others; on them I must touch lightly. Gordon is
a writer on " Lowland Lore," and writes good ballads of his
own, like the one beginning :
" 'Twas an eerie nicht, an' the storm-cluds lower'd,
An the lichtnin's glent was keen,
An' the thunner roll'd, but nane were cower'd
I' the clachan till-hous bien."
It is a fearsome ghost story well told.
John W. is a very charming writer. His ballad of the
courtship of " Bell " is first-rate, and it begins:
" Sin' Bell cam' to bide in our toun,
The warl' has a' gaen ajee ;
She has turned a' the heads o' the men,
And the women wi' envy will dea.
O, but Bell's bonnie !
Dink as a daisy is she ;
Her e'en are as bricht as the starnies
That shine in the lift sae hie."
Such are some of our literary men, and they are very
creditable specimens. I know that I have left out more than
I have given. I have not said a word about all the