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few necessary personal effects and also sundry 
culinary articles of iron or tin and a quantity of 
provisions. A white canvas cloth, attached to 
the seat, was drawn tightly over the load at the 
back, steadying and holding it in place, and 
incidentally giving it the effect of a peddler's 
pack or an emigrant's outfit. Mr. A. gener- 
ously tied his own fishing-rod to the back of 
the seat with our umbrellas, over which were 
thrown the bright new Halifax rugs that must 
have felt a little indignant at the figure they 
were made to cut. M.'s sketching materials 
stood against the dashboard, and under our 
feet, to her dismay, was a tin can of worms 
which the stable boy at the last moment con- 
tributed for bait, also a wrench, and a bottle 
of oil to grease the wheels. 
As there was no room for it inside, Mr. A. 
had dexterously with a long rope tied a bushel 
of oats and " cut feed " in a bag to the back 
springs, not improving their action thereby, but 
adding materially to the general emigrant effect. 
We finally started, moving down the main 
street of Baddeck with what dignity circum- 
stances permitted, while the Sandys, Rorys, and 
Murdochs stood at the doors of the moribund 
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