300 SPORTING ADVENTURES 



keeper, however, had some conscience, as he 

 allowed us to go by, merely remarking that 

 "he guessed we'd paid enough already." 



After a couple of days spent most pleasantly 

 at Niagara, we took the train for New York. 

 We were delayed for a few hours by a broken 

 bridge at Rochester, but this delay enabled us 

 to see the Hudson river to great advantage. 

 Here again, though unmolested by touters, 

 much of the romantic beauty of the river is 

 spoilt by the numerous advertisements of quack 

 medicines, which are posted up on every con- 

 spicuous point, rock, or tree, and deface the 

 whole landscape. What can be more ridi- 

 culous, not to say disgusting, than, when 

 following with your eye some lovely bend of 

 the river, to come suddenly upon " Gargling 

 Oil," "Vinegar Bitters," " Try Jones's Pills," 

 &c., painted in such staring letters that but 

 little else can be seen. Not but what many 

 of the American advertisements have great 

 humour and originality in them. For instance, 

 an individual recommends his opening medicine 



