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thrown open like a door, from which we looked out upon 

 a tiny garden in "rounds" and "diamonds," full of blos- 

 soms, and not a weed. This was like a bit of paradise, 

 and we now thanked fortune we were there. Our supper 

 would make one wish always for Canadian cooking. We 

 left with regret and were very glad to stop there again a 

 week later, on our return trip. We were welcomed like 

 old friends, and the changes we had made in the arrange- 

 ment of furniture had been accepted. 



At another much larger hotel we were under great 

 obligations to a Montreal traveling merchant, who 

 received us, answered all our questions about mails and 

 routes, and gave our orders for supper and breakfast. 

 He spoke English well, only he did say several times he 

 would not "advertise" us to go a certain route, as it 

 would be out of our way. 



We dined at the Iroquois, on the "mountain," the 

 resort of Canada. It is a large English hotel with all the 

 appointments, and a pretty lake is seen a little farther up 

 the mountain, through the woods. We illustrated the 

 Canada Mountains we saw, to a friend in New Hamp- 

 shire, by placing balls of lamp-wicking on her table ; they 

 have no foothills and look like excrescences. 



One night in quite a large hotel, we had no fastening 

 on our door. We were assured we were perfectly safe, 

 but our room could be changed if we wished. We did 

 not like to distrust such hospitality as we had met con- 

 tinually in Canada, so we kept our room, but, lest the 

 wind should blow the door open, we tilted a rocking- 

 chair against it, with a bag balanced on one corner, and 

 so arranged the lunch basket, with the tin cups attached, 



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