8 SPORT IN VANCOUVER 



in the lower berth to dress and undress, and 

 put away your clothes where you can. 



If you have only a single berth, you have 

 to dress and undress as best you can, sitting 

 in your berth. 



On my first trip to Canada, I was only going 

 as far as Mattawa, one night in the train, so 

 contented myself with a single lower berth. 



The upper berth was occupied by a very 

 stout lady, who in descending in the morning, 

 gave me an exhibition of understandings as 

 unexpected by me as it was unintentional on 

 her part. 



The real advantage of a section, in taking 

 the long Trans-Continental journey, is that 

 when the berths are put up in the day-time, 

 one has a nice compartment to oneself ; that is, 

 if the black porter does not condescend some- 

 times to occupy one of the seats, and only to 

 move, on being politely requested to do so. 



The sporting pamphlets of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway make a sportsman's mouth 

 water. Here we have the paradise of the 

 fisherman — there the Mecca of the sportsman. 



It was certainly then disappointing, to say 

 the least of it, to find in the Restaurant Car, 

 that though passing through the paradise of 

 the fisherman, two days out from Montreal, 

 we were eating stale mackerel, and on the return 



