NEW BRUNSWICK. • 139 
" Where does it start from ? We must inquire for our- 
selves, I see." 
" Oh, any.where round the streets ; up one street and 
down another." 
" Now that cannot be," continued my friend sternly ; 
" it must start from some place, and we do not wish to 
miss it." 
"Well, it will be along; it goes all around." 
" It has to cross that ferry, I believe," said my friend, 
almost savagely. 
" Yes," said the boy. 
" We will wait there where it cannot miss us." 
" Why, there it comes now ; don't you see it on the 
other side of the river ?" 
Sure enough, there it was ; and from that moment it 
never escaped our eye. There was a post-office near by. 
" Postmaster," said my friend, " as you must know, on 
account of your official position, will you tell me when 
the Princess Royal leaves Chatham for Shediac." 
" Oh, yes ; every Monday and Friday. It is advertised 
in the paper." 
^' ISTow there is some satisfaction about this," and out 
came his note-book. " Every Monday and Friday — ah, 
yes, the paper says Why, the paper says Monday 
and Thursday !" 
" Impossible ! So it does ; why she never sails on 
Thursdays. There must be some mistake." 
" Somewhere no doubt," said my friend, despondingly, 
returning the note-book ; nor was he much relieved by 
being afterwards informed by the stage-driver that she 
sailed neither Thursday nor Friday, but only Monday. 
