{"product_id":"2940016080666","title":"Canada and the Canadians, Volume I","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOF\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE FIRST VOLUME.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003eEmigrants And Immigration                                            Page 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003eThe Emigrant and his Prospects                                           46\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.\u003cbr\u003eA Journey to the Westward                                                90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV.\u003cbr\u003eThe French Canadian                                                     127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V.\u003cbr\u003ePenetanguishene--The Nipissang Cannibals, and a\u003cbr\u003eFriendly Brother in the Wilderness                                      146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI.\u003cbr\u003eBarrie and Big Trees--A new Capital of a new District--Nature's\u003cbr\u003eCanal--The Devil's Elbow--Macadamization and Mud--Richmond Hill\u003cbr\u003ewithout the Lass--The Rebellion and the Radicals--Blue Hill and\u003cbr\u003eBricks                                                                  172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER. VII.\u003cbr\u003eToronto and the Transit--The Ice and its innovations--Siege\u003cbr\u003eand Storm of a Fortalice by the Ice-king--Newark, or Niagara--Flags,\u003cbr\u003ebig and little--Views of American and of English Institutions--Blacklegs\u003cbr\u003eand Races--Colonial high life--Youth very young                         195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII.\u003cbr\u003eThe old Canadian Coach--Jonathan and John Bull passengers--\"That\u003cbr\u003eGentleman\"--Beautiful River, beautiful drive--Brock's\u003cbr\u003eMonument--Queenston--Bar and Pulpit--Trotting horse Railroad--Awful\u003cbr\u003eaccident--The Falls once more--Speculation--Water\u003cbr\u003ePrivilege--Barbarism--Museum--Loafers--Tulip-trees--Rattlesnakes--The\u003cbr\u003eBurning Spring--Setting fire to Niagara--A charitable Woman--The Nigger's\u003cbr\u003eParrot--John Bull is a Yankee--Political Courtship--Lundy's Lane\u003cbr\u003eHeroine--Welland Canal                                                  217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX.\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Fresh-water Seas of Canada                                    266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCANADA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CANADIANS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Emigrants and Immigration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVery surprising it seems to assert that the Mother Country knows very\u003cbr\u003elittle about the finest colony which she possesses--and that an\u003cbr\u003eenlightened people emigrate from sober, speculative England, sedate and\u003cbr\u003ecalculating Scotland, and trusting, unreflective Ireland, absolutely and\u003cbr\u003ewholly ignorant of the total change of life to which they must\u003cbr\u003enecessarily submit in their adopted home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI recollect an old story, that an old gunner, in an old-fashioned,\u003cbr\u003ethree-cornered cocked hat, who was my favourite playfellow as a child,\u003cbr\u003eused to tell about the way in which recruits were obtained for the Royal\u003cbr\u003eArtillery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe recruiting sergeant was in those days dressed much finer than any\u003cbr\u003efield-marshal of this degenerate, railway era; in fact, the Horse Guards\u003cbr\u003ealways turned out to the sergeant-major of the Royal Military Academy of\u003cbr\u003eWoolwich, when that functionary went periodically to the Golden Cross,\u003cbr\u003eCharing Cross, to receive and escort the young gentlemen cadets from\u003cbr\u003eMarlow College, who were abandoning the red coat and drill of the\u003cbr\u003efoot-soldier to become neophytes in the art and mystery of great gunnery\u003cbr\u003eand sapping.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The way they recruited was thus,\" said the bombadier. \"The gallant\u003cbr\u003esergeant, bedizened in copper lace from the crown of his head to the\u003cbr\u003esole of his foot, and with a swagger which no modern drum-major has ever\u003cbr\u003epresumed to attempt, addressed a crowd of country bumpkins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'Don't listen to those gentlemen in red; their sarvice is one which no\u003cbr\u003eman who has brains will ever think of--footing it over the univarsal\u003cbr\u003eworld; they have usually been called by us the flatfoots. They uses the\u003cbr\u003emusquet only, and have hands like feet, and feet like fireshovels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'Mind me, gentlemen, the royal regiment of the Royal Artillery is a\u003cbr\u003esarvice which no gentleman need be ashamed of.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'We fights with real powder and ball, the flatfoots fights with\u003cbr\u003ebird-shot. We knows the perry-ferry of the circumference of a round\u003cbr\u003eshot. Did you ever see a mortar? Did you ever see a shell? I will answer\u003cbr\u003efor it you never did, except the poticary's mortar, and the shell that\u003cbr\u003emortar so often renders necessary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'Now, gentlemen, at the imperial city of Woolwich, in the Royal\u003cbr\u003eArsenal, you may, if you join the Royal Artillery, you may see shells in\u003cbr\u003eearnest. Did you ever see a balloon? Yes! Then the shells there are\u003cbr\u003ebigger than balloons, and are the largest hollow shot ever made--the\u003cbr\u003eFrench has nothing like them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'And the way we uses them! We fires them out of the mortars into the\u003cbr\u003eenemy's towns, and stuffs them full of red sogers. Well, they bursts,\u003cbr\u003eand out comes the flatfoots, opens the gates, and lets the Royal\u003cbr\u003eArtillery in; and then every man fills his sack with silver, and gold,\u003cbr\u003eand precious stones, after a leetle scrimmaging.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153121919216,"sku":"2940016080666","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016080666","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}