84 CANADIAN TUEF RECOLLECTIONS 



For Kerby's kindness in giving him the introduction 

 Coleman promised to send him a pug dog as soon as he 

 reached home, and true to his word he sent it. It came 

 in a box three fe^t square, with innumerable holes bored 

 in it, per express, $1.50 charges. It was paid, and as 

 Kerby's friends, a half dozen of whom were present, 

 crowded around to see the well-bred dog, there, firmly 

 wired in the centre of the box, was a china pug, weight 

 about four pounds. Poor Coleman ! It is hard to realize 

 that a man so full of jollity and mirth and in the prime 

 of life has run his race and weighed in for the last time. 



