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Les diagrammes suivants iilustrent la mithode. 1 2 3 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 rimnibfr«*H .Ttmnial, April'-', 19!)*-'.] A (JLlMJ'dE OK LIFE IN liRITJSlI C0LUM15IA. 219 ^ I have just he.ircl something tlmt lius surprised pretty wooelen house, built, as is so much the me,' he saiil very quietly. 'Is it a fact that you are marrieit V James Bulbous started, clianged colour, and dropped his eyes for a moment. Then he looked frankly in his father's face. 'I ouglit to have told you, father. I am ashamed both before Gertrude and you not to have done so. Yes, sir ; 1 am married.' JIatthew examined tlie pattern of the carpet for n few Hecon'.-.iS faken to see the beauties of tlie place. New Wesiiiiiuster on that occasion looked charming, for all the fruit-trees wire in full blossom, the sky of a deej) intense blue, while the snow-clad summits of tlie Cascade Range were rellected in the depths of the Eraser River, at this point nearly a mile broad. ^^'e passed a pleasant afternoon laying in stores, and buying some chairs and othei' necessary pieces of furniture ; but were both only too glad' to feel ourselves sleeping again in beds which were stationary, and to know there was no likeliliood of being disturbed at intervals by requests to show our tickets, as had been the case for the last seven nights. The remaining few days we spent in seeing everything of possible interest in the neighbour- hood, including a salmon 'cannery,' though just then but little work was being done, for the great salmon 'jun' does not come until some weeks later, when from each cannery are packed up and sent away thousands of tins of fish, to be distributed all over the world. During the busy season, both Indians and Chinese are in great request, the former being piincipally employed as fisliernien, and the latter boiling and packing up the salmon. Having come to the end of all our business, we started about seven o'clock one morning on the steamer William Irvinn to make the best of our way to our home. The trip up the ri^'er was very lovely, still the same bright clear atmosphere and wonderful freshness in the air which 1 noticed on the fii'st day of our arrival. A great drawback to the beauty of the scenerj', however, were the blackened fir stumps, which stood up in all direc- tions, and showed only too plainly the ravages of many large forest fires. When we reached Llngley, a gt'uuiue bush settlement, and originally a fort of the Hudson Bay traders. Jack (my husband), Will, and I set off to see if we could find a j conveyance to take us up to Alder Grove. After favoured district on the Pacific coast, that there j more than one unsuccessful attempt, we were told is little fear on hearing its name to-day that any one will say, as happened a few years ago : ' Oh, let me see — that is in South America, is it not V Still, I think, unless one has had some personal experience of the place, it is difficult to realise how much, and yet how little, life in British Columbia resembles that in England. As it fell to my lot to spend some months on a ranch, many of the points of dissimilarity were perhaps made more noticeable at first than the likeness between this colony and the mother-country. My husband and I sailed from Liverpool on the nth of May, and after an easy and comfort- able journey of sixteen days' duration, we arrived at our destination, New Westminster, where it was necessary to stay a few days before proceeding to our own home. Here we found my brother wait- ing to meet us, and with him we went at once to the lodgings he had taken for us, in a quaint but it was possible we might get a 'buggy' at the minister's, rather farther along the road. So we toiled on, almost grilled, for it was tremendously Iiot, and wei'e very fortunate in finding Mis T — — at home. She welcomed us kindly and hospit- ably, but, sad to say, did not think their horse a safe one for strangers to drive over such a bad country. Off the boys started again on another search expedition, this time coming back with better luck, for a lady from Alder Grove was spending the day in Langley, and would be returning almost immediate!}-. She had a tiny baby with her, and a man to drive ; but if 1 would not mind a seat on o box at the back of her 'buckboard,' she would ^ veiy pleased. Needless to say I was only too glad to accept her ofl'er ; and we were soon read}- to start. No one who has not been over partially cleai'eJ roads through a AVestern forest can have any con- ception of that drive. Jolt up, jolt down; now the right wheel in mud up to the axle, and --^ I , -»-,i*.-'.j;'*'!i«'jji*i»Wi^M*i. 2J0 CUAMIJKKS'S JOURNAL. [April 2, 18115 ^ HOW tlie k'ft goin;,' tilt over a stump a foot higli. Kvery nioineut I tliouglit I should bo thrown off my m^iucure perch, ami hail no timi; to look at wliat scenery we might be passing througii. At last, gniiig (lown a steep hilli tlie horse grew so nervous he croucheil like a camel, ami tlie whole 'rig' was straining over until I expected to see the" shafts snap. -Mrs R began to cry, 'Oh baby, baby !' passed the child to me, and got out instantly, when I handed it to her; ami then, in spite of oft-repeated atlvice about not jumping out of a carriage in danger, 1 t')ok a good siuing, and alighted safely on the ground witli no worse damage than yards of torn drapery at my back. 'Oh, Mrs Long,' said Mrs R reproachfully, 'you would have ijeeu all right if you had stayed.' Perhaps so ; but the prospect of sitting behind a plunging horse with a precipice in front and another on the right-hand side hardly seemed to me a sensible idea. The remaining tliree miles and a half I did not enjoy much more, as we were mainly occupied in pulling through tlie great mud-holes, which are often a foot deep and ten feet long, and are caused by the upiMuting of enormous tree stumps and roots when the roads are first constructed. Heartily glad was 1 when we were safely luuler the shelter of Mrs R 's ho-pitable roof, and could comfort ourselves with the thought that no more driving was necessary. About nine o'clock the next morning we said 'Good-bye' to our hostess, and tlien set off across a trail to Will's shanty ami real bush-life. The trail was such a novel experience, it deserves description. As the roads are at present in a most unfinished condition and few in number, some other communication is necessary between the various settlers' houses ; and for this purpose a trail answers admirably. A narrow pathway is trodden out in as direct a lino as possible, and the principal largo trees notched with an axe — or 'blazed,' as it is called— so that no confusion may arise later on. Often we found it necessary to walk along the huge fallen fir and cedar trunks which lie stretched on the ground in every direc- tion. They are of enormous size, from two to three hundred feet in length, and proportionately broad. Occasionally, we came to a piece of swampy ground, which was made passable by a 'corduroy' bridge, formed of higs laid side by side on the damp earth, and fastened together by cross-pieces, so that in case of high water the bridge can rise or fall like a raft. Arrived at Will's shanty, we found a little house built of the native cedar of the country, and inside an awful muddle, an