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MMEDIATELY after we met the Saracens on skates and demonstrated that the days of chivalry are not dead, we arranged with MacGully to ship the hardware home that we might have it as a memento of those husky doings. Then shaking hands with the frigid north we started on our long trip to the land of graft and graciousness, smug in the complacency of knowing that although we had netted no giants we had turned an amiable penny by our endeavors on the side.

"Well, I won't act the gazetteer, but will simply say that after a long, tedious jaunt we caught the home-bound steamer, skirted Labrador, said ta-ta to Carkwright, and finally sneaked through the Strait of Belle Isle and reached the blessed St. Lawrence.

"‘Now for sweet rest and the innocent spectacle of a cow chewing her cud in some Vermont vale,' I sighed, luxuriously, when we'd been in Montreal for a day.