P.R. completed--Quebec--A swim at Niagara--Other
mighty waterfalls--Ottawa and Rideau Hall--Effects of dry
climate--Personal electricity--Every man his own dynamo--
Attraction of Ottawa--The "roaring game"--Skating--An ice-palace--
A ball on skates--Difficulties of translating the Bible into
Eskimo--The building of the snow hut--The snow hut in use--Sir
John Macdonald--Some personal traits--The Canadian Parliament
buildings--Monsieur l'Orateur--A quaint oration--The "Pages'
Parliament"--An all-night sitting--The "Arctic Cremorne"--A
curious Lisbon custom--The Balkan "souvenir-hunters"--Personal
inspection of Canadian convents--Some incidents--The unwelcome
novice--The Montreal Carnival--The Ice-castle--The Skating
Carnival--A stupendous toboggan slide--The pioneer of "ski" in
Canada--The old-fashioned raquettes--A Canadian Spring--Wonders
of the Dominion
CHAPTER X
Calcutta--Hooghly pilots--Government House--A Durbar--The sulky
Rajah--The customary formalities--An ingenious interpreter--The
sailing clippers in the Hooghly--Calcutta Cathedral--A succulent
banquet--The mistaken Minister--The "Gordons"--Barrackpore--A
Swiss Family Robinson aerial house--The child and the elephants--
The merry midshipmen--Some of their escapades--A huge haul of
fishes--Queen Victoria and Hindustani--The Hills--The Manipur
outbreak--A riding tour--A wise old Anglo-Indian--Incidents--The
fidelity of native servants--A novel printing-press--Lucknow--The
loss of an illusion
CHAPTER XI
Matters left untold--The results of improved communications--My
father's journey to Naples--Modern stereotyped uniformity--Changes
in customs--The faithful family retainer--Some details--Samuel
Pepys' stupendous banquets--Persistence of idea--Ceremonial
incense--Patriarchal family life--The barn dances--My father's
habits--My mother--A son's tribute--Autumn days--Conclusion
THE DAYS BEFORE YESTERDAY
CHAPTER I
Early days--The passage of many terrors--Crocodiles, grizzlies and
hunchbacks--An adventurous journey and its reward--The famous
spring in South Audley Street--Climbing chimney-sweeps--The story
of Mrs.
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