Clarington Digital Newspaper Collections

Canadian Statesman (Bowmanville, ON), 14 Sep 1892, p. 4

The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

.BOWMÂNVILLEC, SEPT. 14, 1892. Editorial Wanderings. THE IIOMEWARD VOYAGE. Mns. JAxEs TAXES THE EuîTRo'S PEx2", NUMBEPt TEN. At the request of my husband who does net feel able ta rosume editorial work yet 1 shaîl endeavor to give a f ew particulars of Our vova e hoead acrosa the At- warehouse district than we remeniber of joints, etc.; roast heef, boiled hDem,,lamb to an end and on Wednesday morning ever seeing before, they were almost with- and mmt sauce, turkçey croquetts, roast ithough there wvas a brisk wind blowing out exception, large burly f ellows such as gos , pgon pie, pig's cheek corned, the sea had very perceptably calrned sud miglt make good settiers for our North- roast partridge, corned beef. fresh salmon by ind day miost of the passengers were west if willing to work and wouid change pced, pres9sed lobsters, chickcn sslad, again on deck though many of thera wore their precarious life in the city for one on watercress, Cheshire sud Stilton cheese, sad and weary counitenances which told of the boundless prairie so f ull of possibilities baked apples. the misery they had experienced during for ail industrious and perseveriflg persons. 'DINNER. the previous 36 Iiours. In spite of the llaving sent our luggage to the steamer Mock tur'cle soup, julienne soup, boil- strong head winds our record for the 24 in charge of a porter from the hotel we i cr ih n ytrsac elcro- hours up to Wednesday noon was 292 rode on the top of a bus for nearly five qe sc raie ali and tr ace,; vos - knots. It was % beautiful clear day and miles atng the buay docks for the purpo<' i qetsanduahd raacstewedoi o befo1re evening the sea became quite caîni of eeig te hndrds f fne orgés m-beef and'suet pudding, roast larnb an nd the passengers were corresponciingly ployed for carting purposes, and the siglit mint iaSuce, roast turkey aud cranberry Joyous. About 6 p nm. just as the bell was well worth seeing for we underetand summnonedO m o diner a fine large ice- so mauy fine horses cannot be nn a sauce, boiled mutton aud capz2r 9aauMQ br peae ntesaror ;d other city in the woret. We inhad nsy bacon aud broad beans, cold hainiand egaprdontesrbr iQad fin vew f cors f oea seaers fo a tongue, roast partridge and bread sauce ; as we passed quite close 'to it we had a fie ie o sors f cen temes ron lfi wrturisad crrotsahd good.view of it, many of the passengers dilcetatso h oldbdnadcaiWr rpsa1a ,ms said it was the largest they had ever seen, - A e~~~~~~~~iled-potatces, bîla c ratpu-.-- nm n~iWsn1¶fiii and gaze on the tomaba of Nelson and Wellington and think of their noble deeds in defeuce of the country that has thus honoured them. WVe saw a fine display of jewels and war inmplements in the Tower of London. We walked under the River Thames through the tunnel where 1 think one of our party "a lady but not of Bowmanville" got a little frightened, she being the last to enter the tunnel, however she became more composed when we changedl places with lier and stood be- tweenï her and imaginary danger. Westý minster Abbey is a place of very mucli interet to me, also the Celebrated Wax- worl< Exhibition of Madani Tàssaud which must bu seen Vo bu f uly apprecïated, ît was somiething imarvê'llg tebnme. 0f course we had to go to Windsor Castle to seo,,,. Oun en. we snw hIY ut ienn be lauty, went on beard the old shipVictory, ssw the spot oR the deck where Lord Nelson feli and the spot lie laid his heaël ou aud died, and mauy relies of the battie in which he bast lis life. On August l5th we lef t for Cardiff to visit the bast sister and lier famuly. After spending s few days there we beft for Liverpool to joi our party for home. A large number of the people in Eug-. baud have a very, limîted knowbedge of Canada and our mode of living.' They eall ail froni this aide of the Atlantic, Americaus, and think that America ia so simaîl a place that you are expected to know every person living there, Says one - What do you have to est ? Are there any popatoes there 1 Do you have any aunles 1 Wha~t sor-t of hoîîns are thorap in

Powered by / Alimenté par VITA Toolkit
Privacy Policy