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Show ff ENCLI3H IDEAS OF CANADA. Life In the West Not What tho Colo- U nlsts Had Pictured. E Curious accounts como to band ot vtho colonists who went to western Canada. A proportion ot them, as uUfht bftvo been expected, entertained Sctraordlnary notions ot what llfo In w,.wlld west would, bo, and tho ma- Jnty of them seem to havo armod tomselves wltji ns many guns as they toiild have needed to fight Indians trlco a wook. Unfortunately some of these warlike Itdlviduals had not taken the prelim!-:iry prelim!-:iry stop of learning to shoot, and tho irjeeems to have eohoed with the dls-clarge dls-clarge of their guns 3t off In pure nhtonness. so that the police bad to Itterforo to check their enthusiasm. Thoso of them who woro sportsmon wo geuulnoly disappointed, as tho buffalo has entirely disappeared, and u to tho redskin of Fonlmoro Cooper's coveL he exlBts no more, since tho Indian In-dian of to-day saturates hlmsolf with lia, wears the samu clothing as the trhlto manand goes to church regularly. regu-larly. Sketch. |