12 A SPORTSMAN'S EDEN. 



perambulators in High Street, Kensington, in 

 his desire to avoid John Barker's pretty windows. 



The confectioners and the furriers are the shops 

 par excellence in Canada ; and as about half of 

 the shops in the main streets belong to one or 

 other of these classes, we have little to complain 

 of. Red foxtail boas, and a silvery moonlit sort 

 of fur, which they call grizzly bear, are amongst 

 the prettiest exhibits in the furriers' windows ; 

 and a box of what the natives call ' mallows/ sent 

 to you by this post, will convey some idea of the 

 confectioner's skill to your palate. 



The men chaff us in a superior kind of way 

 about our taste for sweets, but they forget the 

 beam in their own mouths. I mean the cigar. 

 Don't you think it is simply that to suck some- 

 thing is a necessity of the race ? Both sexes 

 start level on thumbs ; in later life consoling 

 themselves with sugar or tobacco, according to 

 sex. The result in both cases is the same tooth- 

 ache ; and this brings me naturally to a physical 

 trait in our Canadian cousins which is as notice- 

 able as any I mean their ' golden ' smiles. 



' A beaux dents femme n'etait jamais laide,' 

 you know ; but when all nature's pearls are set 

 in gold, how can a woman's smile be anything 

 but bewitching ? Really some of the girls you 

 meet carry quite a small fortune in their mouths. 



