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some ditching work at a distance from the home- 

 stead, my wife and I found ourselves alone with Mrs. 

 Mackee and her little four-year-old daughter at the 

 midday meal. The little child looked round the room 

 several times expectantly, but becoming at last con- 

 vinced that no one else was coming to dinner, re- 

 marked in a clear nasal voice, " Why ! we 're quite 

 a small crowd to-day," a remark which tickled me 

 immensely. 



We finally bade adieu to Western America and all 

 the kind friends we had made in that rich young land 

 of a magnificent future, and entering the train at 

 Sheridan, travelled by Chicago and Toronto to Ottawa, 

 and taking ship at Portland in Maine traffic on the 

 St. Lawrence having been by that time suspended 

 finally reached England in time to spend our Christmas 

 at home. 



