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diff --git a/22347.txt b/22347.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a100a75 --- /dev/null +++ b/22347.txt @@ -0,0 +1,959 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Through Canal-Land in a Canadian Canoe, by Vincent Hughes + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Through Canal-Land in a Canadian Canoe + +Author: Vincent Hughes + +Illustrator: Vincent Hughes + +Release Date: August 16, 2007 [EBook #22347] +[Last updated: March 31, 2011] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THROUGH CANAL-LAND *** + + + + +Produced by Andrew Hodson + + + + +[Transcriber's Note: The spelling of Westmoreland has been modernized to +Westmorland, and employes (with an acute accent over the second e) has +been changed to employees. Variant spellings of macintoshes and +mackintoshes have been retained as printed.] + + + + +THROUGH CANAL-LAND IN A CANADIAN CANOE +BY VINCENT HUGHES. + +The Boy's Own Paper. +OCTOBER 7, 14 & 21, 1899. + +Bearing in mind that variety is the spice of existence, I determined that +I would temporarily desert the dear old Thames, with whose waters I had +become so familiar, and try fresh fields and pastures new during my +approaching holidays. + +Accordingly, I took a friend (who had been my boon companion on many +a previous trip by land and water) into my confidence, and after due +deliberations, befitting an enterprise likely to be of a novel character, +we determined to explore the comparatively un-known canals that commence +from the Thames, at Brentford, and thread their way through England from +south to north, and end at Kendal in Westmorland. + +One thing that largely influenced us in deciding upon this route was that +we had recently become possessed of a light and well-built Canadian canoe +that had been sent us by an English resident in France, where he had been +using it in exploring the picturesque portions of the Seine. + +We fortunately had a friend connected with the Grand Junction Canal +Company, and through his kindly offices were enabled without much +difficulty to obtain passes allowing us to journey over the different +canals which we had mapped out as the waterway to follow. + +This part of the undertaking having been successfully disposed of, +we turned to and overhauled our craft, and saw to the getting of the +outfit which we should require in order to make the trip a success. + +By the time that all our arrangements were in a complete state, the day +fixed for the start arrived, and it found us brimming over with cheerful +anticipation of the good time in store for us during the next three weeks, +and in the best of health and spirits. + +We were "up betimes in the morning," as quaint old Samuel Pepys has it, +and journeying down to the boat-house at Kew, where we had left our canoe +overnight, soon got afloat and on our way, without mishap or delay of any +kind. What a glorious August day it was! The sun shining brightly in a +cloudless blue sky overhead, the birds singing blithely in the trees upon +the banks, and the water sparkling and lapping beneath our bows; no wonder +we took it all as a good omen for the success of our trip. + +Heading up-stream, we soon shot beneath the railway bridge at Kew, and pass +through dirty, straggling old Brentford, entered the Brent, where a short +paddle brought us to the first lock. Getting through in our turn, after a +short delay caused by a string of canal barges coming through to catch the +morning tide, we entered upon the Grand Junction Canal, which extends form +here to Braunston, a distance of some hundred and six miles. + +An enjoyable paddle through fairly pretty and diversified scenery brought +us to Hanwell, where we had to negotiate a cluster of five or six locks, +all grouped together within a short distance, for the purpose of carrying +the water over a sharp rise in the ground. We had a brief chat here with +an old bargee, from whom we got some useful advice, not wholly free from +chaff, and proceeded upon our way, arriving about midday at West Drayton, +where an _al fresco_ lunch on the bar was much appreciated. Resuming our +journey after refreshing the inner man, we passed Uxbridge and Harefield, +and so out of Middlesex into Hertfordshire. + +The town of Rickmansworth being passed, Watford, about a mile from +the canal, was settled upon as our first stopping place; and evening +approaching, we went ashore to seek our well-earned repose for the night. + +Early to bed and early to rise was the programme, so after a light supper +and a brief stroll around the outskirts of the town, we turned into bed and +were not long in seeking the sleep that is said to be the reward of an easy +conscience. + +The sun shining through our window in the morning got us out of bed at an +early hour, and we were soon splashing about in the sunlit waters of the +canal. A delightful dip ended, we returned to our quarters for breakfast, +and from the looks of genuine admiration expressed upon the countenance of +our landlady, I should judge that our appetites did us full credit. + +Afloat once more, we paddled by easy stages past Cassiobury House, +surrounded by a glorious well-wooded park, and then reached King's Langley, +to which an interest attached as having been the birthplace of Edward III. + +We found the scenery all along this portion of the canal typical of rural +England, the various inns by the wayside recalling the delightful types +made familiar by the brushes of Dendy Sadler and Yeend King. + +We soon found to our cost that the tropical summer weather was responsible +for the presence of numerous wasps, whose attentions were rather too +pressing to be altogether pleasant. While engaged in trying to allay the +burning pains of a bad sting upon Jacky's arm, we were advised by a rustic +on the bank (whose sympathetic grins upset my chum almost as much as the +wasps) to try some clay from the canal-side as a remedy. We were sceptical +at first, but were subsequently astonished at the soothing effects of this +novel panacea for wasp-stings. Here is a wrinkle for any of my readers +who should happen to get stung by the ferocious little pests. + +At Boxmoor, where we next arrived, we observed, during a saunter around the +village, a curious stone erected to the memory of a highwayman rejoicing +in the most un-romantic name of Snooks, who was hanged here at the +beginning of the century for robbing the King's mail. + +Paddling on farther, we passed Berkhampstead (a corruption of +Berg-ham-sted, the home on the hill), with its picturesque castle, +much in request by picnic parties, and duly arrived at Bulborn, near Tring, +and during a stroll around the latter town we observed a column erect to +commemorate the completion (in 1832) of the canal along which we were +journeying. + +We stopped for the night at Bulborn, a typical bargee's village, +and after our usual morning dip proceeded on our way in good time. + +As the day wore on, we got well into Buckinghamshire, and shortly after +came to Stony Stratford, remarkable in history as being the place where +the ill-fated young Edward V was seized by Richard Duke of Gloucester. + +A paddle of some length brought us to the Stoke entrance of the well-known +Blisworth Tunnel, which is a mile and a-half in length, and forms the first +of a series along the route. + +Seeing one of the curious little tug-boats about to proceed through the +tunnel, we obtained permission from one of the very grimy crew to place our +canoe aboard, and, this safely accomplished, the tug puffed and snorted up +to the entrance, hitched on to a string of barges, and with a deal of fuss +and smoke entered the tunnel. + +The journey through this subterranean passage was a most novel one +to us who had never been through a tunnel of this description before. +The intense darkness, only illuminated by the light from the boiler fire, +was most uncanny, while the wonderful reverberations and echoes occurring +in the tunnel quite startled us until we became used to the situation. +The roof seemed so low that we instinctively stooped our heads to avoid +getting them removed from our shoulders, an action which caused immense +amusement to the skipper, who, in the manner of his kind, accentuated the +eerie feeling of the place by spinning all sorts of creepy yarns about +canal boatmen who had mysteriously gone overboard in the pitch dark, +and never been seen again. + +We drew a long breath when we emerged into the welcome blinking daylight +at the other end of the tunnel, and soon after bade good-bye to our whilom +friend the skipper. + +I can imagine no place more calculated to quickly shatter the nerves and +break the health of a human being than one of those foul, suffocating +tunnels under the hills. + +On this occasion we stopped for the night at Blisworth and put up at a +wayside inn possessing the curious sign of the "Sun, Moon, and Seven Stars" +(the only one in England we were told), where we met with quite a +reception, the news of our approach having gone ahead of us, we afterwards +discovered. + +Before proceeding next day, we had to clear the canoe of the dirt and +rubbish collected during the passage of the tunnel. Upon this day we +passed through six locks in close succession, as well as another tunnel, +and skirted the village of Ansley, once the property of Lady Godiva, +of the uncomfortable ride fame, soon after which we left the waters of +the Grand Junction at Braunston (Warwickshire), and entered upon those +of the Oxford Canal. + +A hard day's paddle, of no particular interest, brought us to Willoughby, +where we put up for the night. + +We awoke next morning to find the weather damp and misty, so we dispensed, +for the first time, with our morning dip, and lingered somewhat over +breakfast to make up for it. + +_A propose_ of eating, I should mention that all along the way we had come +fruit was in abundance, and as for apples--well, we fairly revelled in +them. + +To my mind a good English apple, fresh picked from the tree, and with the +dew upon its sun-kissed cheeks, cannot be beaten the whole world over. + +During a portion of this day we had to face a strong head-wind, which made +the travelling rather hard, and severely taxed the patience and skill of +the steerer. Happening to chaff him once or twice when the wind got the +upper hand and nearly slewed the canoe round, he challenged me to try +my hand and do better. Accepting the challenge, and in the rashness of +youthful confidence, I ventured to wager him that I could take the canoe, +single-handed and empty, up to a certain point and back again, during +which I should, of course, have to turn broadside on to the full force +of the wind. + +The outcome of it was that we quickly landed and emptied the canoe of all +impedimenta in case of mishap, and then I started off--not so confidently, +though, I may add--on my uncertain way. + +All went well until I attempted to turn, and then the full force of the +wind catching me suddenly, over I went, after a vain attempt to steady the +canoe, souse into the canal. Coming to the surface, I called out (when I +had emptied my mouth of as much canal-water as I could) to Jacky that I +was all right, and then, amid his uproarious mirth, I struck out for shore, +pushing the canoe in front of me. + +A brisk rub down and a change of flannels (we were in a secluded spot, +fortunately) soon mended matters, and by the time Jacky had emptied the +canoe of water and stowed away our belongings, I was ready to start again, +thoroughly cured for the time being of over-confidence in my canoeing +powers. + +After a stiff paddle through charming woodland scenery, and passing +_en route_ Bedworth, the most active part of the Warwickshire coal-fields, +we reached Nuneaton, where we went ashore and engaged a room for the night +under the hospitable roof of the White Horse. + +A stroll around Nuneaton before bedtime afforded us much delight, as the +old town is full of antiquity, and is also known to fame as the birthplace +of George Eliot. + +In the morning we took mine host's little son and daughter with us in +the canoe as far as Atherston, where we sent them safely back by train, +thoroughly delighted with their novel experience, ours being the only craft +of the kind that they had ever seen in those parts. + +When we arrived at Caldecote we went ashore to explore the place, +and noticed with much interest a monument erected to the memory of one +George Abbott, who in days gone by defended Caldecote Hall against a +Royalist attack led by Prince Rupert. So stubborn was the defence that +the defenders melted down the pewter dishes and plate to cast bullets. + +We noted with pleasure that the lives of those gallant Roundheads were +spared when the garrison finally had to surrender. + +We proceeded on through the Birmingham Canal, passing close by Coventry, +and arrived at Fradley, where we obtained a charming view of Lichfleld +Cathedral in the distance. We rested for the night at Fradley (our bill +for an excellent supper, bed, and breakfast coming to the modest sum of +3_s_. 6_d_. for the two of us), and early next morning got afloat. + +We were now on the North Staffordshire Canal, having covered about 160 +miles since the commencement of our journey. + +We shortly after began to get in the heart of the Pottery District, and +the scenery for some distance assumed the aspect peculiar to manufacturing +centres. + +Past Armitage, Rugeley, Colwich, and several other towns and villages we +paddled, until we reached Little Heyward, where we stopped about midday +for lunch. + +Re-starting after a rest, we were overtaken by a monkey-barge, the skipper +of which kindly gave us a tow for some miles, until we arrived, in the +afternoon, at Stone, where we went ashore for tea and a look round the +town. On several occasions we took advantage of the good-nature of the +bargees and their wives, and obtained a tow behind their barges when we +wanted a rest. On the whole, we found them a most interesting and sociable +lot of people, and on more than one occasion we were invited on board, +as honoured guests, to partake of tea with the skipper and his family. + +Life on board one of these slow-moving canal barges appeared to me to +possess many charms. The barge people seem to pass a sort of amphibious +existence, belonging neither to the land nor to the water, but having a +human interest in each. The women and children almost wholly live aboard +their floating homes, often never stepping ashore from one day to the other +and going about their domestic duties, as well as those connected with +their calling, with all the precision and cheerfulness in the world, +as if there were nothing strange or out-of-the-way in their surroundings. + +Then the scenery through which they pass. To anyone who is capable of +appreciating the beauties of Nature in the slightest degree, there must +be something soothing and elevating in constantly being brought face to +face with Nature in all her varying charms. Now gliding calmly past a +water-side village, with the children running out to give you a greeting; +then through a waving, poppy-starred cornfield, or past low-lying meadows, +with the meditative cattle standing knee-deep in the sweet pasturage, and +anon a bend in the canal carries you past wood-lands where the trees meet +overhead and form a cool canopy through which the rays of the sun can only +penetrate here and there in slanting beams. + +When my thoughts wander in this groove, I often marvel at people electing +to live in stuffy, smoky towns, when the charms of the country are at +their bidding. + +Proceeding on our journey after tea, we eventually arrived at +Stoke-on-Trent, and went ashore to seek shelter for the night at a +wayside cottage. + +We got afloat in the morning after our swim and a hearty breakfast, +and proceeded past the outskirts of the town, which we were not sorry +to leave behind. + +It came on to rain soon after we left Stoke-on-Treat; but as we were +well prepared with macintoshes to face the elements, we proceeded +cheerily on our way. + +After paddling for about four miles we came to the entrance of another +long tunnel, which we entered, after taking the precaution to provide +ourselves with candles. We had a nasty experience in navigating through +this tunnel, which I should not much care to encounter again. + +After proceeding cautiously for some distance, during which we had to avoid +a ducking, and possibly a swamping, from the numerous "weep-holes" that let +showers of land water descend from the roof, our candle suddenly went out +and left us in total darkness. To make matters worse, a lot of land-water +was coming through the tunnel, which, together with the backwash of a tug +some little way ahead of us, tried us considerably, and finally wedged our +canoe between the two walls of the tunnel. + +We did not relish the situation at all, I can assure you, especially as we +could not take stock of our whereabouts; but after a deal of rocking and +shoving (during which we had a narrow escape from capsizing), we managed +to get the canoe clear of the walls, and worked our way backwards, +hand-over-hand, to the mouth of the tunnel. + +After this experience we were strangely unanimous as to the desirability of +going through in some less risky manner (we accused each other of "funking" +afterwards), and accordingly sought the aid of a man, a boy, and a +wheelbarrow, and in this unconventional manner conveyed our goods and +chattels overland to the other end of the tunnel. + +In the course of our journey along the canals we passed through a number +of these tunnels, including the one that starts close to Chatterby Station, +and goes under Yield and Golden Hills. The passage of barges through some +of these tunnels is performed in a very curious manner, as owing to the +roofs being too low to admit of tugs passing through, the heavily laden +canal barges have to be "footed" along by men and boys lying on their +backs and pushing against the roof or walls of the tunnel. + +As may be imagined, but slow progress is made in this manner, the passage +of some of the tunnels occupying upwards of an hour. In some cases, +however, the tunnels are provided with a narrow tow-path running through +them, which, of course, greatly facilitates the passage, as when once +momentum is obtained, a man and a boy can tow a barge through without +much difficulty. + +We next reached Harecastle, in Cheshire, where we landed for lunch. +Re-starting, after doing justice to a good feed, we soon encountered a +cluster of thirty-five locks (think of it) all grouped together within a +distance of six miles. Finding the negotiating of two or three a weariness +of the flesh, we cast around for help, and fortunately came across a +"locked-out" coal-miner, who for two shillings cheerfully trotted on ahead, +and opened each of the remaining locks ready for us by the time we arrived, +thus giving us a welcome rest after a spell of hard work. + +After getting through the locks we had a straight-away paddle of some nine +miles, which was a pleasant change after the slow and tedious progress we +had lately been making, and passing by Alleyfield and Sandbach Station, +brought our day's journey to an end at Middlewich, where we are glad +to leave the canoe at the lock-house, and make preparations for passing +the night. + +Proceeding next morning, with the sun shining and everything looking fresh +and lovely after the rain of the previous day, we got into the picturesque, +country peculiar to the salt district. + +Some distance out of the town we obtained a pleasant tow of a few +miles behind a barge going in our direction, and from an old lady in a +picturesque sun-bonnet; who came out of the cabin to chat with us, we got +the welcome information that we should pass through a wonderful nut-grove +on the banks of the canal, where she prophesied that we should have a real +royal time. And she was about right! + +Such a profusion of filberts I never have seen before. The trees literally +were interlaced across the canal, and being in a perfectly out-of-the-way +spot, where scarcely anyone but the canal-boat people passed, the branches +were simply weighed down with the toothsome nuts. + +We were told by our informant that the filberts were anybody's property; so +when we came to where the trees were heaviest laden we paddled beneath the +bough and soon had picked enough to fill the bows of the canoe. You may +be sure we never wanted for filberts upon the rest of the day's journey. + +I pictured with what delight the average schoolboy would have hailed that +nut-grove, especially as the gathering of the nuts from the bank would have +entailed torn clothes, many tumbles, and unlimited scratches. + +After passing through lovely country, we arrived at Preston Brook, where +we joined the Duke of Bridgewater Canal (now the property of the Manchester +Ship Canal Company). + +Here we decided to stop for tea, after which we once more proceeded on our +way, and after an uneventful paddle, brought our day's journey to a close +at Grappenhall, where we obtained comfortable quarters for the night at a +cottage on the canal side. + +Up at six-thirty next morning, and after cleaning out the canoe and +indulging in our morning swim, sat down to a good breakfast, to which +we did ample justice. + +Once more afloat, we made good progress towards Manchester, but after about +an hour's paddle it came on to rain in torrents, and continued so until we +reached Cottonopois, which we fetched at about one o'clock. I have always +been given to understand that it does little else but rain at Manchester, +and certainly on this occasion the much-maligned city did not belie its +reputation. + +However, we did not trouble ourselves much, about the rain, as we had +mackintoshes and sou'-westers on. + +Presenting much the appearance of a pair of ancient mariners in our get-up, +we entered Hulme dockyard, safely berthed our canoe there, and prepared to +spend the next two days with friends in the city. + +After passing two very pleasant days, during which we saw all that could +be seen during such a brief stay, we said good-bye to our hospitable +Manchester friends and pushed on towards our destination and in due time +reached Booth Town, close to Barton moss, passing _en route_ Old Trafford +Park. Near by here we arrived at the famous swivel bridge by which the +Bridgewater Canal is carried over the Manchester Ship Canal. + +We happened to get to this point just as the bridge was opened to traffic +for the first time, and as we paddled across in state we were hailed and +told that ours was the very first canoe to have the distinction of crossing +the new waterway. + +During the rest of the day's paddle we were in the very heart of the +coal-mining district, and our progress caused no little comment and wonder +to the crowds of "locked-out" miners and their families. So embarrassing +became their attentions at length that we had to abandon our original +intention of landing at Wigan, owing to the numerous crowd awaiting our +approach at that place. + +Twice we essayed to get ashore, but finally, not appreciating the +appearance of the motley crowd, we pushed on until we reached Plank Lane, +where, the crowd of idlers being a little less dense, we summoned up pluck +enough to venture ashore. + +Even here we found ourselves the centre of attraction to the people; +rough miners crowding around as we lifted our canoe from the water, +to stare in amazement at our appearance, some even going so far in their +admiration of our little craft as to pass their hands along its polished +sides, all the while expressing their opinions in such a broad vernacular +as to be almost unintelligible to our Southern ears. They thought it was +a joke upon our part when we told them that we had paddled all the way +from London in the canoe. The way they nudged each other and winked +solemnly was most expressive. + +Their attentions at last became so overwhelming that we were compelled +to give the craft into the care of the friendly lock-keeper and beat +a hasty retreat. + +Our host at Leigh very kindly afforded us a much-wished-for opportunity of +exploring a coal-mine. Getting up early in the morning, we proceeded to +the mouth of the pit, entered the cage, and soon were speeding downward at +a most alarming pace, accomplishing the distance of 700 yards in forty-five +seconds. + +The sensation accompanying this rapid descent into the bowels of the +earth was far from pleasant, but we quickly recovered when we reached +_terra firma_, and, when we had become accustomed to the intense darkness, +were soon able to follow our guide through the almost deserted workings. + +The miners were on strike, and only the engineers and others necessary to +attend to the machinery for keeping the shafts and workings ventilated and +free from water were on duty, so that the desolate stillness of the place +impressed us more profoundly, perhaps, than if we had been surrounded by +busy toilers. + +After going all over the mine, each with Davy lamp in hand--during which +we had several times to chase our head-gear, which was blown off by the +strong draught from the ventilating fans--we once more entered the cage +and were quickly whirled upwards to the light of day. + +Next day we embarked rather later than was our usual custom, and paddled +on towards Preston, having to traverse a portion of the river Ribble before +we reached this town. Nothing very interesting or exciting occurred upon +this day, except for a rather narrow shave we had of getting smashed up +by a barge. + +It happened that one of us was towing, while the other remained in the +canoe to steer. Just as we got to a very narrow strip of the canal near +the entrance to a lock, we met some barges coming down in tow of a tug, +and, as luck would have it, our tow-line fouled a tree stump just at the +moment when the tail barge began to swing ominously over towards our bank. + +For a moment or two it looked as if the canoe must be crushed like an +egg-shell between the bank and the barge, but fortunately at the critical +moment an extra strong jerk on the tow-line got it clear, and with a run +Jacky whisked the canoe through the narrow streak of open water, and we +were safe. + +We stayed with friends at Preston for the next three days, and managed +to put in a highly enjoyable round of sight-seeing, during which we paid +a flying visit to Southport. + +Our stay at an end, we embarked once more, taking three of our friends +with us in the canoe as far as Garstang. + +Five people (in addition to luggage) in a small craft of this description +was an exceedingly tight pack, and we had to strictly taboo any skylarking, +else we should very quickly have got a ducking. At Garstang we left our +friends, after a high tea; and after passing several towns and villages, +at eventide reached Lancaster, which we made our headquarters for the +night. + +I may mention that we met with great kindness and consideration from the +officials during the whole of our journey along the Lancaster canal, one of +the employees being told off to clear all barges out of our way, and see us +safely, and with the least trouble to ourselves, to its end at Kendal; this +thoughtfulness saving us much delay and inconvenience, and rendering this +portion of our trip one of the most delightful experiences throughout the +whole of our journey. + +Getting afloat in good time next morning, we bade farewell to Lancaster, +and pushed on towards Crooklands, passing Nately and Ashton on the way. + +For a great portion of this part of our journey the surroundings were truly +beautiful, the trees meeting overheard in many places, and forming a cool +leafy canopy, while the water was so clear that we could distinguish +objects lying upon the bottom quite distinctly, although the water averaged +a depth of seven or eight feet. Our silent approach allowed us to come +upon shoals of fish, which only darted away when our bows cleared the water +immediately above them, a sight that roused all our angling instincts. + +At other spots along the canal the towering hills, with their crests +enshrouded in mist, combined to make up as impressive a picture as can +be conjured up by the imagination. + +Wild-flowers, blackberries, and sloes dotted the banks in profusion, +and the occasional starting of a hare or the putting up of a rocketing +pheasant from out of the woods, through which we passed at intervals +conveyed to us a charming impression of Nature in all the glorious +wealth of an early English autumn. + +At Hest Bank the canal approached the coast, which we followed for some +distance allowing us to obtain an interesting view of Morecambe Bay. + +Arriving at Crooklands about seven in the evening, we left our canoe in +charge there and walked into Milnethorpe, a distance of some three miles, +and sought shelter for the night, with the consciousness that next day +would see us at the end of our canal journey. + +Early next morning we are out and about and, breakfast despatched, we get +afloat once more, with the sun shining, the birds singing, and a soft wind +blowing from the south, making the last part of our trip every respect. + +We paddled along past the varied scenery on the banks, dotted here and +there with villages and hamlets and occasionally a town. The last day on +the canal we made a regular picnic of, landing on the grassy banks when we +wanted to rest and eat, and pushing onward again when we were so inclined. + +In this manner we progressed past Hincaster, Sedgwick, and Natland, +and at about three o'clock in the afternoon reached Kendal, where the +canal system curiously ends in a sheer wall. We were now practically of +our destination, and after carefully bumping the nose of the canoe against +the headwall of the canal, we landed at the steps. + +Obtaining the assistance of a man with a horse and cart, we conveyed our +craft to Kendal railway station, and after tea took the train (with the +canoe stowed away in the guard's brake) to Windermere station. +Now a difficulty arose as to how to get the canoe safely to +Bowness-on-Windermere, a distance of about a mile and a-half. +We were nearly at our wits' ends for want of a suitable conveyance, +when a kindly disposed 'bus-driver offered to take the canoe inside the +'bus, which offer, needless to say, we literally jumped at; and seated +outside with our craft stowed away inside the vehicle, we proceeded to our +journey's end in this novel fashion, much to the amusement and edification +of the numerous onlookers. + +After a short stay by the lakeside, we took our canoe by train back to +London, and so brought to a close one of the most health-giving and +enjoyable holidays it has ever been my lot to spend, and which I shall +always recall with the liveliest feelings of delight. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Through Canal-Land in a Canadian Canoe, by +Vincent Hughes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THROUGH CANAL-LAND *** + +***** This file should be named 22347.txt or 22347.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/3/4/22347/ + +Produced by Andrew Hodson + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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