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lodgings. So off we started, and posted to the station at
Paris, a distance of seventy miles. We passed the towns
and villages of Victoria ^T, Ellenborough ^T, Mudges ^V, Hollow
Walsingham ^T, Bradford ^T, then on to Paris. You may conceive
we were pretty well tired out. We then took train to Toronto.
The Station Master gave us the tickets. We told him we
wanted to be in Toronto Sunday morning. On reaching
Hamilton however, we found that the train did not
go farther, and there was no other till Monday morning.
I went to the Station Master to get the money returned,
and then up to Hamilton, it was half-past three Sunday
morning. I procured a buggy and team, that is a pair
of horses, and off we started for Toronto. By and bye we
came to a place by the lake shore where the lake had
washed away the road, so we had to go seventeen miles
out of our way in consequence. This made our journey
62 miles instead of 45, and was not the only mishap,
for when about 20 or 30 miles from Toronto, one of our
horses dropped down, and died in about 2 or 3 minutes
over-heated, I suppose, as the owner was driving and
taking care of the animals. We now got another
conveyance and went on a few miles, when the tire of one
wheel came off, then we had to get a waggon and one