Crowded Out! and Other Sketches

Crowded Out! and Other Sketches is a collection of short stories written by Susie Frances Harrison,  a Canadian poet, novelist, music critic and music composer.

Author's Preface:

I present these “Sketches” in all proper fear and humility, to my Canadian public, hoping that the phases of colonial life they endeavor to portray will be recognized as not altogether unfamiliar. Some of them are true, others have been written through the medium of Fancy, which can find and inhabit as large a field in Canada as elsewhere; for, to my mind, there is no country, no town, no village, as there is no nation, no class of society, nor individual existence, that has not its own deep and peculiar significance, its own unique and personal characteristics that distinguish it from the rest of the world.

The stories are titled as:

• The story of Monsieur, Madame, and the pea
• green parrot
• The Bishop Of Saskabasquia
• As it was in the beginning
• A Christmas sketch
• The idyl of the island
• The story of Delle Josephine Boulanger
• The story of Etienne Chezy D'Alencourt
• Descendez a l'ombre, ma jolie blonde
• The prisoner Dubois
• How the Mr. Foxleys came, stayed, and never went away
• The gilded hammock