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Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad, or, How to Succeed

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By Zorra, in the following sketches, is meant a little district in Oxford county, Ontario, some ten miles square, composed of part of East and part of West Zorra, and containing a population of about fourteen hundred. It was settled about the year 1830, chiefly by Highlanders from Sutherlandshire, Scotland.

Within the last forty years there have gone from this district over one hundred young men who have made their mark in the world. With most of these it has been the writer's good fortune to be personally and intimately acquainted; and companionship with some of them has been to him a pleasure and a benefit.

It is not intended to include all these in the following sketches; this were impracticable, but it is believed that a brief, unvarnished account of the career of some of them may be an inspiration, not only to the young men of Zorra to-day, but to men everywhere struggling against difficulties, and earnestly engaged in the conflict of life. Such sketches will also be to many a pleasant souvenir of early days, when

"Hearts were light as ony feather,
Free frae sorrow, care and strife."

(summary by W.A. MacKay (1900)) (4 hr 21 min)

Chapters

00 - Introductory

10:55

Read by MaryAnn

01 - Sketch I. James Wood

9:25

Read by MaryAnn

02 - Sketch II. Alexander M. Sutherland

21:14

Read by ravenotation

03 - Sketch III. Prof. Henry John Cody, M.A

10:14

Read by MaryAnn

04 - Sketch IV. George Mackay

16:34

Read by J.S. Kenney

05 - Sketch V. Thomas Adams

7:33

Read by Christine Blachford

06 - Sketch VI. George N. Matheson

7:42

Read by Christine Blachford

07 - Sketch VII. Hon. Donald Mackay

9:27

Read by J.S. Kenney

08 - Sketch VIII. Dr. James Fraser

17:33

Read by TriciaG

09 - Sketch IX. Paul Murray

7:09

Read by Amy Gramour

10 - Sketch X. James and John Fletcher

14:13

Read by J.S. Kenney

11 - Sketch XI. Hon. J. R. Sutherland

5:41

Read by David Lawrence

12 - Sketch XII. Mervin Cody

13:06

Read by ravenotation

13 - Sketch XIII. G. L. Mackay, D.D.

15:18

Read by MaryAnn

14 - Sketch XIV. Prof. Donald Mackay, B.A.

9:51

Read by ravenotation

15 - Sketch XV. Nelson Janes

4:19

Read by Sean McGaughey

16 - Sketch XVI. D. S. Burdick

13:28

Read by TriciaG

17 - Sketch XVII. John Griffiths

7:12

Read by TriciaG

18 - Sketch XVIII. Thomas Oliver, M.P.

10:23

Read by Christopher Maust

19 - Sketch XIX. Hon. James Sutherland, M.P.

8:21

Read by Christopher Maust

20 - Sketch XX. Rev. Charles W. Gordon, B.A. ("Ralph Connor")

10:28

Read by JimOCR

21 - Sketch XXI. Rev. Alexander S. Macleod, M.A.

4:41

Read by JimOCR

22 - Sketch XXII. Capt. John M. Ross

13:01

Read by TriciaG

23 - Sketch XXIII. Dr. A. E. Matheson

10:01

Read by TriciaG

24 - Sketch XXIV. John S. Mackay

3:48

Read by Sean McGaughey