Canada

"THE COURT CONSIDERS THE MATTER"

In Pittsfield the machine frightened a lawyer, - not a woman, or a child, or a horse, or a donkey, - but just a lawyer; to be sure, there was nothing to indicate he was a lawyer, and still less that he was unusually timid of his kind, therefore no blame could attach for failing to distinguish him from men less nervous.

That he was frightened, no one who saw him run could deny; that he was needlessly frightened, seemed equally plain; that he was chagrined when bystanders laughed at his exhibition, was highly probable.

IN LENOX

There are several roads out of Pittsfield to Springfield, and if one asks a half-dozen citizens, who pretend to know, which is the best, a half-dozen violently conflicting opinions will be forthcoming.

"THE WAYSIDE INN"

Saturday morning, September 7, at eleven o'clock, we left the Touraine for Auburndale, where we lunched, then to Waltham, and from there due north by what is known as Waltham Street to Lexington, striking Massachusetts Avenue just opposite the town hall.

Along this historic highway rode Paul Revere; at his heels followed the regulars of King George. Tablets, stones, and monuments mark every known point of interest from East Lexington to Concord.

Being A Desultory Narrative Of A Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, And The West

by "Chauffeur" Arthur Jerome Eddy

1902

CALLING THE FERRY

Next morning, Sunday the 8th, we left the inn at eleven o'clock for Providence. It was a perfect morning, neither hot nor cold, sun bright, and the air stirring.

We took the narrow road almost opposite the entrance to the inn, climbed the hill, threaded the woods, and were soon travelling almost due south through Framingham, Holliston, Medway, Franklin, and West Wrentham towards Pawtucket.

To disarm criticism at the outset, the writer acknowledges a thousand imperfections in this discursive story. In all truth, it is a most garrulous and incoherent narrative. Like the automobile, part of the time the narrative moves, part of the time it does not; now it is in the road pursuing a straight course; then again it is in the ditch, or far afield, quite beyond control and out of reason. It is impossible to write coolly, calmly, logically, and coherently about the automobile; it is not a cool, calm, logical, or coherent beast, the exact reverse being true.

"BULLETINS FROM THE CHAMBER OF DEATH"

During these days the President was dying in Buffalo, though the country did not know it until Friday.

A Manitoban Travelling-carriage - The Perils of Short Cuts - The Slough of Despond - Paddy to the Rescue! - "Stick-in-the-Mud" and his Troubles - McQuade's - An Irish Welcome - Wretched Wanderers.

Faithless Jehu - The "Blarney Stone" - Mennonites in search of News - "Water, Water everywhere" - A Herd of Buffaloes - A Mud Village - Pointe du Chene and Old Nile - At Dawson Route - A Cheerful Party - Toujours perdrix - The "Best Room" - A Government Shanty - Cats and Dogs - Birch River - Mushroom-picking - The Mosquito Plague - A Corduroy Road - The Cariboo Muskeg.

The "Nor'-west Angle" - The Company's House - Triumph of "Stick-in-the-Mud" - On the Lake of the Woods - A Gallant Cook - Buns a l'imprevu - A Man overboard! - Camping out - Clear Water Bay - Our First Portage - A Noble Savage - How Lake Rice and Lake Deception won their Names - At our Journey's End.