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She hears the singing of the birds, the murmuring of the bees, the tinkling of the hill, and busy hum of cheerful labour from the village or the farm, when those beside her can hear only the deep cadence of the wind among the lofty forest-trees, the jangling of cattle and bells, or strokes of the chopper's axe in the woods.
Catherine Parr Traill, The Canadian Settler's Guide, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 1969 (first published 1855), p. 13.
PLACE: Canadian frontier
TIME: 1850's
CIRCUMSTANCE: a recent settler longs for home and fantasizes sounds from there.
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