A SPORTSMAN'S EDEN. 



these fair ' Canucks,' many of the wiles of their 

 great-grandmammas, nor lost any of that pretty 

 art of coquetry which those worthy dames im- 

 ported from la belle France in the seventeenth 

 century. ' Irish mavourneens with French man- 

 ners,' one of the men called them ; but though 

 he may have been a judge of mavourneens, his 

 knowledge of French, at least Canadian French, 

 appeared to us at Quebec somewhat limited. 

 My dear, Madame F., the old French governess 

 at the school where you and I were taught, could 

 not herself make those cabmen of Montreal un- 

 derstand either French or English. To return 

 to the ladies ; don't imagine that you will win 

 your way to their hearts by reminding them 

 of any French blood which may be in their 

 veins. On the contrary, if you intend to carry 

 their affections by storm, mistake them for wan- 

 derers, like yourself, from the old country. You 

 will soon find that they are more English than 

 the English, and that they ' want in the worst 

 way ' to persuade you that Canada has no accent 

 and no odd little idioms in her English, and they 

 will ' go hopping mad ' if you dare to disagree 

 with them. 



If you read your Queen conscientiously, you 

 will find two queries often repeated with regard 

 to sea-voyages. In various keys the wail is 



