Yet the experience of that year was not lost. It was the first
instance of a company of settlers in that northern climate
passing the winter without illness, discord or trouble with the
Indians. Later, in the little new settlements of Quebec and
Montreal, some of the colonists met again under the wise and
kindly rule of Champlain. Little Helene lived to bring her own
roses to a garden in New France, and teach Indian girls the
secrets which old Jacqueline taught her. And it is recorded in
the history of the voyageurs, priests and adventurers of France
in the New World that wherever they went they were apt to take
with them seeds and plants of wholesome garden produce, which
they planted along their route in the hope that they might thus
be of service to those who came after them. Amsterdam’s the
cradle where the race was rocked— All the ships of all the world
to her harbor flocked. Rosy with the sea-wind, solid, stubborn,
sweet, Played the children by canals, up and down the street.
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