Seeds of Pine

'Seeds of Pine' is an adventure novel written during the Settlers era by Janey Canuck, a penname of Emily Murphy. Written in first-person, it tells the story of a female homesteader in Canada. She is not particularly content with her life and the place she finds herself in as can be seen from her thoughts on the matter: "The new steel trail the railway men are laying from Edmonton leads away and away, I cannot say whither. For these many days I have had an anxious desire to follow it and the glories thereof. I am tired of this town and of the electrical devices that appear and re-appear in the darkness like eyes that open and shut—wicked eyes that burn their commercial message into my very soul. I am sick of these saucy, swaggering streets and of sundry of the townspeople. Come you with me and let us travel down the ways through the heart of the summer! We shall have breeze and sun in our eyes, and breeze and sun in our hearts. If you like not the prospect, pray, come no further, for we be contrary the one to the other and no way-fellows."