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sleigh grovelling in the snow. We soon managed 

 to pick ourselves up, however, and there Avas no 

 great harm done. By ten o'clock that evening we 

 were in Quebec ; and I need hardly describe to the 

 reader the pleasure we felt at finding hot water once 

 more at our door, with good razors, soap, hair- 

 brushes, and a comfortable bed in a well warmed 

 room. To appreciate thoroughly the delights of 

 these appliances of civilisation, you should be de- 

 prived of them for six days. 



In spite of all mj' fondness for sport, good reader, 

 I assure you that I have no ambition whatever to 

 start upon another sleigh journey ; and if ever again 

 the desire should seize me to renew my acquaintance 

 with moose deer, I shall take the omnibus to the 

 Zoological Gardens, and cultivate it at my leisure. 

 There, at any rate, I shall be sure to find a ravage, 

 and I can study the habits of the creature mthout 

 the slightest inconvenience. 



For all that, I am not sorry to have had an 

 opportunity of visiting the solitudes of Canada. 

 I only protest against the idea that there is any 

 pleasure in hunting moose in the depth of winter, or 

 that the Eed Skins of Loretto have any affinity with 

 the Uncases and Chingachkooks of Mr. Fenimore 

 Cooper. 



