Canada

"BULLETINS FROM THE CHAMBER OF DEATH"

During these days the President was dying in Buffalo, though the country did not know it until Friday.

THE MADDING CROWD

Any woman can drive an electric automobile, any man can drive a steam, but neither man nor woman can drive a gasoline; it follows its own odorous will, and goes or goes not as it feels disposed.

UP THE HILL

It was Saturday, the 14th, at nine o'clock, when we left New York for Albany, following the route of the Endurance Contest.

The morning was bright and warm. The roads were perfect for miles. We passed Kings Bridge, Yonkers, Hastings, and Dobbs Ferry flying. At Tarrytown we dropped the chain. A link had parted. Pushing the machine under the shade of a tree, a half-hour was spent in replacing the chain and riveting in a new link. All the pins showed more or less wear, and a new chain should have been put on in New York, but none that would fit was to be had.

MAKING READY TO START

The machine was just an ordinary twelve hundred dollar single-cylinder American machine, with neither improvements nor attachments to especially strengthen it for a long tour; and it had seen constant service since January without any return to the shop for repairs.

HOME

We left Buffalo, Saturday the 20th, at four o'clock for St. Catharines. At the Bridge we were delayed a short time by customs formalities.

In going out of the States it is necessary to enter the machine for export and return, otherwise on coming in again the officials on our side will collect duty on its full value.

"IS THIS ROAD TO - "

The trip was not premeditated - it was not of malice aforethought; it was the outcome of an idle suggestion made one hot summer afternoon, and decided upon in the moment. Within the same half-hour a telegram was sent the Professor inviting him for a ride to Buffalo. Beyond that point there was no thought, - merely a nebulous notion that might take form if everything went well.

THE RAILROAD SPIKE

A five o'clock call, though quite in accordance with orders, was received with some resentment and responded to reluctantly, the Professor remarking that it seemed but fair to give the slow-going sun a reasonable start as against the automobile.

Irish Wit - Bears? - Death on the Red Pine Lake - A Grave in the Catholic Cemetery - The First Dog-train - A Christmas Fete - Compulsory Temperance - Contraband Goods - The Prisoner wins the Day - Whisky on the Island - The Smuggler turned Detective - A Fatal Frolic - "Mr. K - - 's Legs".

Birds of Passage - An Independent Swede - By Sleigh to Ostersund - A Son of the Forest - Burnt out - A Brave Canadian Girl - Roughing it in the Shanty - The Kitchen-tent - Blasting the Rock - The Perils of Nitro-glycerine - Bitter Jests.

We lose our Cows - Cahill promoted - Gardening on a New Principle - Onions in Hot-houses - Cahill is hoaxed - Martin the Builder - How the Navvies lived - Sunday in Camp - The Cook's Leap - That "Beautiful Skunk!" - Wild Fruits - Parting.