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Show 1 .ENGLISH IDEAS OF CANADA. Life In the West Not What the Colo nlsts Had Pictured. Curious accounts come to hand ot tho colonists who went to western Canada. A proportion of them, as might have been oxpected, entertained extraordinary notions of rhat life In tho wild west would be, and the majority ma-jority of them seem to have armed themsehes with as many guns as they would have needed to fight Indians twice a weok, Unfortunately somo of tbeso warlike individuals had not taken tho preliminary prelimi-nary step of learning to shoot, and the air seems to have echoed with the discharge dis-charge of their guns let off In pure wantonness, so that the polico had to Interfere to check their enthusiasm. Thoso of them who were sportsmen were genuinely disappointed, as tho buffalo has entirely disappeared, and as to the redskin of Fcnlaoro Cooper's novel, ho exists no more, since the Indian In-dian of to-day saturates himself with gin, wears the same clothing as tho white man, and goes to church regularly. regu-larly. Sketch. |