The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-07-23
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OTTAWA TO PORTLAND.
AROUND THE LAKES.

steamer Fountain City," bound around the
Lakes, at Il. NJ, June 3Oth, 1870. The passen.
gers soon became acquainted with each other,
and time passed rapidly, leaving happy rsmsm'
branos of its moments with all of us. When We
entered Lake Huron the wind and rain came up,
and pretty soon the boat came up too, and then
those good hearty meals also began to come up.
The passengers had rather a bad time. and
were unsociable for few meals. l wanted to be
sea sick but after the boat had rolled while .
change came oyer the spirit of my dream, and
wanted to omit it. I soon threw myself on my
knees,-not in a spirit of devo:ion,-but to facil.
late the passage of a few editions of lake trout,
etcetera, from my epiglottis into the deep sea.
Itheught of sweet home but when began to
could think of. When landed at Toronto had
more feeble time than ever. I had become &C.
Customed to the rolling of the boat, and whom
struck the green earth, it was going around on
it's own axis one way, while rolled on my own
axis quite another way. Pretty soon policeman
came along and said: II arrest you in the name
of her Majesty for being drunk" was argu.
ing with him, trying vainlyl to convince him
that my conduct was the effect of too much wa.
ter, when the clerk of the boat came along and
established my sea sickness. The officer had to
give me paper to the effect that: 1T had been
established by creditable testimony, that the
bearer is not drunk, but sea sick, and is harmless
to her Majesty and her good people, this 9Th day
OF July, 1870" The officer said this would keep
nae from further arrest during my illness. He
got me into Gao and to the American Hotel.
Toronto is very pretty city, and lively with
line looking men, pleasant women, and orderly
policeman. There is no liquo, sold here after
dark Saturday evening but there are q great
many young Floods who carry knives with Q
cork-screw. The good laws design that the people
shall rise Sunday morning with pure apprsci.
alton of Gods recompense to sober habits, aud
with full mind to thsak Him for his gifts
The people are very sociable-not aristocratic-
and generally quite poor You can smoke clay
pipe in full-blooded circles. They have beau.
siful park, full of people and preaching on Sun.
days, and full OF monuments and fine buildings
every day. Many 20 down. of Sunday, to
swim their dogs. They have a fine dog pond
with banks three or four feet high, for the dogs
to Jump from. The trick is to have the fastest
dog and the best jumper. Another is to send
two or three dogs after the same stick, and then
see them fight in the water; sometimes you can't
see dog, and the next moment up they come,
one tail first, another head first, and, perhaps.
another not at all Another trick is to see Who
can throw his dog the farthest into the pond ::
this shows muscle on the part of the thrower,
and sometimes shows there is no wind left on
tho part of the throwed.
From Toronto the pleasure seeker goes down
theSt Lawrence, through the Thousand Islands
and down the rapids. The islands are beautiful
beyond description, and you would like to be
among them always but once, in high time.
down the rapids is all ordinary pleasure seekers
require: they feel the greatest pleasure right Of.
ter they get over them. When a man goes moro
than once for fun, he is no more afraid of death
by drowning than he is of nicely cooked fresh
goldfish. We passed wreck in the last and most
dangerous rapids, and we wondered how those
fellows felt on board when they struck; but the
curiosity was very idle one, and there was not
one on board but would rather strike feather
bed on dry land than one OF those rocks. You
would, no donbt, have some feeling in the mat.
ter II you were to strike rock and if YOU were
to fall overheard or get wrecked in tho water.
you would feel that it would be to much trouble
ana exertion to swim around and try and save
your life; and if you did you would very hk,lv
run a'foul OF some rock and smash your bow in.
Ihe best way would be to quietly drown, and 60
waive the anxiety you would feel in living. /
throw out these hints to those anticipating trip
down the rapids. With an honest mind.-.l.
though was never drowned on the rapids-I
Ieei certain that would die once and forever il
had to live by getting down those rapids with.
out pilot
They have very fine line of steamers ON the
river, and under good pilotage: and there are
fewer chances of danger than you are able TO
appreciate while going down: yet it is true, aud
l say it without levity, that if man was alone
on the rapids, and stranger to their currents,
has only chance of redemption would seem to be
through his Redeemer, and he would enjoy the
blessings of that redemption in smother world
without unreasonable delay
After leaving the rapids alive. you glide con.
sciously into Montreal and are conscious of be.
ing In line, old fashioned city, with some lite
ana many cabmen in it. There are many fine
places to visit which will interest everybody.
L ne ho'eis are good, and there ate many travel.
ing now TO fill them M. There wore lol mr. ,oo,.