Publisher's Synopsis
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Death of Mrs. Faucher?Tom Walker?An earthquake ?Recovery of a lost watch?Ball at Lady Johnson's ?Walk to Fort Erie?Arrival at Amherstburgh?Bay of Saganach ? Escape from a snake ? Arrival at Michilimakinac ? Dr. Mitchel and his daughter ? Colonel Birkbank?Captain Prior?M. la Framboise ?St. Joseph and St. Mary ? Lake Superior?Two camps of hostile savages?Game of La Crosse. It was during the spring of this year (1799) that Mrs. Faucher died in an accouchement; and her disconsolate husband, the Solicitor- General, was so completely overwhelmed by his grief, that he ordered the whole of the room in which Mrs. Faucher's body was to lie in state during three days, should be black-washed, which extended to the ceiling, and the mouldings and cornices to be white-washed, whilst theante-room was white-washed and all the mouldings and cornices should be black. Six ladies from amongst the particular friends of the deceased, were selected to sit as mourners at the head and foot of the coffin, and about fifty wax tapers were placed in several rows round the body?the shutters of course all shut. I paid my respects, as did almost every individual in the city of Montreal during the lying in state; and I well remember that a Mrs. Tom Walker, one of the mourners, a large, but elegant and amiable lady, suffered very severely in consequence of the impurity of the atmosphere of a close room caused by the crowd of persons consuming the vital air, whilst no opening was provided for any kind of renewal. I followed the remains of Mrs. Faucher to her resting-place; the funeral was celebrated with the most extravagant pomp, for she was a Roman-Catholic. The interior of the cathedral was hung with black from top to bottom, on all sides, and thickly covered with white spots exactly of the ...
