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Among the Thousand Islands. 



RIVER CRAFT. 



served as an excellent 

 telephone whereby to 

 hear our landlady in 

 the room beneath dis- 

 cussing with a crony the proper amount 

 of board to charge her guests. " Well," said the crony, " I've a feller 

 a-stayen with me ; I'm a-goin' to charge him two dollars a week, 

 and " — in a determined tone — " I'm a-goin' to git it, too ! " Modern 

 luxuries should always be paid for at whatever price. 



On some of the islands and along the main-land one sometimes 

 comes upon an antiquated group of Lombardy poplars, almost invari- 

 ably standing in the vicinity of some equally antiquated log-cabin or 

 farm-house. The poplar is the ancient sign of hospitality, and in the 

 old country was generally planted near an inn or hostelry. These 

 trees doubtless were brought to this country by the old voyagers, 

 and served as a landmark by which many a traveler or sailor on the 

 St. Lawrence, making the long journey from Montreal to Toronto, 



