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Later on in the day we get the stove hghted 

 and make ourselves some tea, and have a meal, 

 and when night has passed and we have had a 

 good sleep, followed by a wash and breakfast, 

 we come to the conclusion that if we can travel 

 in the same car through to Winnipeg, and are 

 wise enough to keep it decently clean and well 

 aired, we shall get on famously. 



Needless to dwell on the journey. We pass 

 towns and farmhouses, mingled with field and 

 forest, stream and lake, in rapid succession, for 

 the most part still under snow. Were it a little 

 later in the year, perhaps men at work in the 

 fields would give the incoming settlers a wave 

 of the hand and a welcoming shout as the great 

 train thunders past them. 



When travelling on the C.P.R., Ottawa is a 

 good place to provision again for the stretch to 

 Winnipeg, and after passing this, with its fine 

 Parliament buildings, of which we got a glimpse, 

 we soon ran into that wilderness of lake, rock, 

 and forest, stretching for hundreds of miles, 

 which seems to defy man to make use of it, and 

 may well make the new-comer wonder what 

 strange land he has come to. 



We were favoured to skirt the shore of Lake 

 Superior during the evening hours, as the sun 

 hung a gradually sinking golden ball of glory 



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