A CHRISTMAS JAUNT 



learning a few of its more striking ex- 

 pletives. On the first opportunity the 

 lad found his way back to Canada, and 

 had no yearning for riches at the ex- 

 pense of further exile. Gazing for a 

 long time at a fairly earned tip he 

 enquired what the money was for ; when 

 the nature of the transaction was made 

 clear to him he showed the emotions of 

 one who encounters a delightful experi- 

 ence for the first time. 



La Barriere, the half-way house, set 

 in the midst of some leagues of un- 

 broken forest, is the highest point on the 

 road, and can scarcely be less than two 

 thousand feet above the sea. It resem- 

 bles Port Said, not, let me hasten to say, 

 in eclectic iniquity, but as a port of call 

 where all who pass this way, on business 

 or pleasure bent, must meet and fore- 

 gather, a halting place that you cannot 

 evade on one of the world's routes of 

 travel. Having said so much one must 

 admit that the resemblance of this little 



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