64 COLLECTOR'S RAMBLES 



glowing grate, for the night was chilly, exchanging 

 news and relating experiences till long past midnight. 



Dunedin is a large, well-built city. The gardens and 

 public buildings, particularly the Museum and Libraiy, 

 make it evident that the people intend to have the 

 best. The next evening, father commenced a course 

 of geological lectures, which was well attended. We 

 had a stereopticon, and after the lecture was delivered, 

 illustrations were shown and explained. 



We used the oxyhydrogen lime-light, and one of 

 Middleton's lanterns threw upon the screen a fifteen- 

 foot picture of startling clearness and brilliancy. 



Shelley sold tickets when not employed as advance- 

 agent, and I manipulated the lantern. The course 

 once started in a place, there was little to do in the 

 daytime, and we used to collect and examine the 

 objects of interest about the country. 



We made friends, and enemies too, wherever we 

 went. Father's lectures were only popular with the 

 liberal classes, the bigoted know-it-alls doing their best 

 to keep people from turning out; but, as usual in 

 such cases, they made advertising-agents of themselves, 

 for the more they talked, the larger our audiences 

 grew. 



The hotel proprietors and saloon-keepers did not like 

 us very well, for we never drank at their bars or treated 

 others. We seldom tipped the porters or waiters, as 

 we were not far enough advanced in the civilization 



