[Gutenberg 23779] • A Little Girl in Old Quebec
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- Authors
- Douglas, Amanda M.
- Tags
- québec (québec) -- juvenile fiction , canada -- history -- to 1763 (new france) -- juvenile fiction , canada -- social life and customs -- to 1763 -- juvenile fiction , orphans -- juvenile fiction , childrens
- Date
- 1906-09-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.21 MB
- Lang
- en
Excerpt from *A Little Girl in Old Quebec* :
"On the Space between the cliffs and the water a few wooden buildings, rough hewn, marked the Site of the lower town. A wall had been erected, finished with a gallery, loopholed for musketry, and within this were the beginnings of a town that was to be famous for heroic deeds, for men of high courage, for quaintness that perpetuates old stories which are perfect romances yet to-day after the lapse of three centuries..."