All These Arguments, However, Had Little Influence
On My Good Wife, For I Could Not Deny That I Had Seen Such Animals
In Abundance In South Africa; And She Thought She Should Never Be
Safe Among Such Neighbours.
At last, between my wife's fear of the
wild animals of Africa, and a certain love of novelty, which
Formed
a part of my own character, I made up my mind, as they write on
stray letters in the post-office, to "try Canada." So here we are,
just arrived in the village of C - -, situated on the northern shore
of Lake Ontario.
Mrs. Moodie has already stated that we procured lodgings at a
certain hotel in the village of C - - kept by S - -, a truly excellent
and obliging American. The British traveller is not a little struck,
and in many instances disgusted, with a certain air of indifference
in the manners of such persons in Canada, which is accompanied with
a tone of equality and familiarity exceedingly unlike the limber and
oily obsequiousness of tavern-keepers in England. I confess I felt
at the time not a little annoyed with Mr. S - -'s free-and-easy
manner, and apparent coolness and indifference when he told us he
had no spare room in his house to accommodate our party. We
endeavoured to procure lodgings at another tavern, on the opposite
side of the street; but soon learned that, in consequence of the
arrival of an unusual number of immigrants, all the taverns in the
village were already filled to overflowing.
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