INTRODUCTION. 



12, King's Bench Walk. 

 DEAR READER. 



I am advised that you will require an 

 explanation of the form in which these reminis- 

 cences of an autumn, in Canada are offered to 

 you. I have before written in the ordinary 

 form, one chapter following another in the order 

 in which the incidents chronicled in each chapter 

 occurred, and all written by the same hand. Now 

 if I were a Chinaman, writing for possible Chinese 

 emigrants, this would be all as it should be. A 

 Chinese emigration is always, I believe, an emigra- 

 tion of bachelors. They never take their better 

 halves with them. Englishmen rarely leave those 

 better halves behind. A Chinaman goes to 

 sojourn for a few years, devoured all the time 

 by a yearning for the ancestral graveyard, and 



