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Maps, plates, charts, etc., may b( filmed at different reduction ratios. Those too large to be entirely included in one exposure ure filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre film6s d des taux de reduction diffdrents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit eri un seul clichd, il est filmd d partir de Tangle sup^rieur gauche, de gauche d droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images n6cessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m^thode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 i\ I^appy F\oli^ay -BY- s/PQGe eni§0n. 'Mm/MJM TO r-! ONTO 1890. ■.;'¥- Kiitweil ac'mrdinsr to Act ut I'urll.iment iif Canada, in tlie yem- 1890, by CJhacf. R. DKNISON, at tlic ni'iiartmeiit of Agrlculturp. CONTENTS 1. — The Carkvall. 2. -Antwerp Cathedral. 3. — A Day in Antweki" 4. — Little Paris 5. — The Dom City. (J. — The Metk()1'i,is ok the Elbe. 7.— The Kaiser (Jity. 8. — A Day in Hkri-ix 9. — ClIAKLOTTKMUKl.'. 10. —The China ( ity. 11. — The City ok Hiss. 12.— The Treaty City. 13.— The Twin Cities. 14.— An Austrian Episode. ir7.— The Tyrol. 10.— The Rainy City. E Elbe. 17.— Mdnchen to Constance. 18. — Little Niauara. 19-— The Lantern City. 20.— The Festive City. ■-'].- By (Jas and Daylich".'. ■-'2.— With Fa(^i:s n<):.u:\VA;:i) Tt I.MN< i\ I\appy r^oli^iay. "What /J happiness?" asks the awful question album. ■ And unilerneath the query some great-souled mortal has written, "Health, Wealth, and Freedom." With a sufficiency of these three requisites, I set forth on my Holiday, backed by the authority of the question album — I call it "happy,"' and as such present it to the dear five hundred friends who shall read my first edition. The incidents are common-place, but is not the common-place too near to every one of us t j be despised ? And should the reading of their happenings give one hundredth part of the pleasure the living of them did, my temerity in laying them before you will be forgiven. ' GRACE E. DENISON. fY\z C^j'J'y^ii I ^;0U won't have much time to get ready, if you are going in a week, saiil K my dear familiar fi iend, doubtfully, when for the twentieth time she had \^^ C' ''''^^^^) " ^f^^'if^ iiit^ you going ?" and for the twentieth time I had answer- ^&i ed airily, "Oh, I don't know yet." And then in fear and trembling, I confided to her that I was not going to get ready at all. "I shall not take any trunk, nor any valise, nor basket, box or bundle, said I, solemnly. "Just only this thing I am makjug now," and further remark was silenced by the hum of the sewing machine over the gaily striped satteen I was fashioning into that device of some inspired " voyageiire''^ called a carryall. "But that won't hold anything," she expv>i5tulated, as I snipped oft the last end of binding braid, and rose from my seat vith the rjueer shaped bolster hanging over my arm. "Just wait and see," I retorted confideiit ly. It held three gowns, a black silk, a cashmere, and a lace dinner gown, four ch.'uiges of clothing, boots and slippers, extra flannels, a dressing gown, toilet articles, But why enumerate further? I never quite gauged its capacity, so I don't ready know what one could stow away in it. It was as elastic as a Congressman's cons cience, and as neat as a Quaker's bonnet, and when the umbrella and parasol wt re slipped into their pockets, the carryall rolled and buttoned, and a handsome #lrawlstrap buckled securely round over all, I felt that my baggage would cause rue not a fear nor a frown the long summer through, and ejaculated fervently, " If ought to be patented !" and my pretty friend being convinced by the evidence of hor eyes, remarked suddenly, "I must work your initials on it," which she proceeded to do, and then pronounced me "ready to travel." So the deck chair, the steamer trunk and the rug, for the sea voyage, were checked to the wharf in New Yoik, and I and my carryall set forth, notliing doubting our joint ability to return, safe and sound. The early morning awakening in Jersey City, the hurried breakfast, the filthy streets, the clamour and the crowding, the weeping and wailing, the chaffing and chiding, the sudden rush of the porters with trunks and vast crates of fresh vege- tables, ^'garden sass" of every procurable sort, the final good-byes, the saloon odor- ous with breath of roses and carnations, floral tributes to some society darlings who sail with us, all the well-known bustle and confusion and discomfort, and at last the seesawing of the freighted vessel from the docks, and we are oflf. I am located in a nice airy room, and after one little heartless thought, "How nice not to have anyone here to say good-bye to, or cry over !" I proceed to locate my belongings to the best advantage for myself and my fellow travellers, two of whom demand my consideration as we room together. Who does not feel a little excitement, be he or she ever so />/ase a traveller, as the good ship steals away from the familiar shores, and takes her way bravely out into the wide Atlantic? And the islands slip into a haze of distance, and the city fades into a blurred line, and the crisp sea breeze comes chilly at first, but gradually l)racing and full of health and strength, and the sun goes down on us, a little moving speck on the waste of water, and one's evening prayer means more than usual. When you can firmly plant your foot Upon some well-secured land, Do not forget the fun we've had Aboard the good ship Noordland. This exhortation in doggerel verse comes into my head whenever I think of our voyage out. It was scribbled in a pretty girl's album just before we landed at Antwerp, and contains a whole world of suggestive miseries and delightful larks. "Well-secured land" is very good, after thirteen days of sinking and swelling and all the attendant phenomena ; but that sort of thing doesn't make a happy holiday, so we did not give way to it. Our little Belgian doctor, with his funny little crooked smile over his little crooked teeth, says: "When the ship go up, Madame must go up ; when the ship come down, Madame must not stay up — no, no, come down with the ship; then, no 'ma/ de mer!'" But it took some of his patients all their time to learn that simple recipe. W^e had many a " pnriez-vous" about the unknown beauties of Antwerp, and he gave me lots of useful informa- tion in his quaint precise way, for whioh I had reason to rememl)er him kindly. To those dear people who stay at home while the other people roam, I woultl like to tell about how time Hies on an ocean ster mer. Fancy to yourselves the long handsome dining-room, or saloon, as they call it ; the good ship treading her mysterious way steadily, the electric lights burning l)riglitly, the piano going mei- rily, and every now and then a peal of laughter from the young people who cluster round it, practising a "cantata" (save the mark !) about a "grasshopper who sat on a green potato vine." They are all musicians, these young people, some rich and oflf for a halcyon season in the beauty spots of Europe, some far from rich, bound for the music schools of Leipsic or Dref len, or the painting schools of Rome ; tiiey sing in tune and with fervour, the various choruses of the beetles and bugs and flies who figure in this ridiculous composition. I believe they intended to produce it some evening, but you never do what you intend to do on board ship. It must be the sea air. Down here, in the illumination and tlie music and the laughter, grow those friendships which every voyage brings forth, springing up, in constant intercourse, like unto Jonah's gourd, and unfortunately withering, nearly always, as soon. While up on the quiet moonlit deck, more lasting and more delightful, liking twines itself deeper and closer around those waifs of travel who need not the doggerel in the pretty girl's album to awaken in stay-at-home Jays to come gentle and regretful memories and kind thoughts of one another. There were all sorts and conditions of men, and women too, round the red-clothed tables, playing round games of cards, or square games, as the case might be, writing letters, tell- ing stories, exchanging addresses, having a "good time." I grew very fond of some of them (let me whisper) ))efore the good ship Noordland stood still at the Antwerp dock. There was a charming New York mother, with her grown up son and daughter— mademoiselle, a slight, plain, quaint looking girl, with a genius in her fingers that impaled some of us in absurd sketches in her jealously- kept sketch book; monsieur, just the ideal boy, with his laughing brown eyes and serious mouth, a scamp, but such a charming scamp ! I can see him, as I write, drawling out his nonsensical ditty of that grasshopper, and pretending to be earnestly impressed by his misfortunes, or dancing on the deck with our "belle," or carry- ing on a desperate flirtation with two small girls of ten who worshipped him in an unjealous devotion. He was that most charming specimen of young manhood, a really nice Ameri- can, and the very soul of his mother was bound up in him. Then there was the "Colonel," as every one soon called him. Can I give you a pen picture of him ? Kind, shrewd, blue eyes, that twinkle with humour, and a wonderful smile that wrinkles and creases his cheeks and eye corners in a slow network of fun, white haired and moustached, and tall and broad and square-shouldered, with a very gentle manner, and a slow Southern drawl ; such a tender hearted, chivalrous, manly old man. Don't say I go into to* many eustacies There weren't many more of my fellow passengers wlio suited me as well as these. The Colonel had drained deep of life and its sorrows, of war and peace, of happiness and of grief, and now in his more than middle age he has a new experience. For tlie soul thai quailed not before the iron rain of the Federal bullets, the heart that fainted not over a country conquered or a home bereft, turns craven coward before the tortures of ' ' mal de tner ! " The dear old man was awfully sea- sick, with an abject wretchedness and rueful surrender that made me ashamed of my uncontrollable risibility. But then, all the world might laugh at a seasick man, Colonel or otherwise, witho''t adding one jot to his already complete misery. Our "Colonel" is in charge of a young doctor, who orders his goings, and exacts un(|uestioning obedience in a very amusing way. It is too funny to see the big man dutifully obeying his small friend, though I must confess the doctor knows Avhat he is about. He is very fond of an argument, and used to preface his i-emarks with, "as IngersoU says," until he roused the ire and the tongue of a Puritan dame, and we never heard again the name of his apostle. The Doctor is very entertainin and bright, and helps us to be happy, as also does anothi. ;tor, a Chicago Divine, with the appearance of a granger, and the most ludicrous little voice. I wondered when I heard that he was a Chicago clergyman, for I've known several of that ilk, and nmst say they were the pro- perest looking specimens of the ideal parson. Not so the Doctor, in his tweed suit and fo' and aft cap, his thick shoes and flannel shirts, his quaint sayings and uproariously funny anecdotes, his quiet pranks and jokes on the unwary, and his round, rosy, laughing face. He could preach a good sermon and tell a first-class ghost story. I renienibei- his effort in the former direction on the two little words, "Launch out," as one of the most touching and telling discourses I ever listened to. I never heard a text more fitly and quaintly applied. And he told us one evening a ghost story, so ridiculous and so impossible that I rever could master its marvelous details. We had a "candy pull" that evening, thanks to the amiability of our ship's cook, and when we paused in our hot work and surveyed tlie cream-colored result of our labors, and gazed ruefully on our buttered and burnt fingers, the Doctor laid aside his book, and, rising in his quiet corner, said, in his funny, small, apologetic voice, "If you^like — I will — tell you a — ghost story." There was one passenger of a terril)ly matter-of-fact turn of mind, who carped and cavilled at the Doctor's efl'ort. "How could the ghost do that?" and "Didn't you say the other ^o%i was married?" until the Doctor paused, and was on the verge of anger, when a woman of tact spoke sharply up, "No more interruptions, please," and the puzzled and unbelieving carper subsided. Another evening we had a ball on deck. The captain ordered the men to drape the deck with flags and hang colored lamps about, which they proceeded to do with that absorbed and abstracted air I have noticed in sailors. Then the German band came up from the steerage, and played some funny old asthmatic waltzes and polkas, and we danced as best we could, though sometimes the performance partook of the alternate nature of a climb and a slide. But we enjoyed it as oidy the lighthearted and lightfooted can. We had an experience meeting, wlien each one had ton minutes to relate the ad- ventures of one voyage he or she had taken. I thin); the funniest was the confes- sion of a young husband as to a jaunt in a demootiit wagon on a Sunday morning, in company with his nice little wife, and an amateur photographing outfit. The pic-nic developed into a runaway, and though the history only took ten minutes, it was very rich. Of course, they always have a concert on every voyage, Imt a concert on board ship is even worse than a concert on shore, the only fun al^out it Ijeing the comical introductions by the Chicago divine, who made an excruciating chairman. Then we had bets on the rate of speed each (hiy, on the hour we shouhl land, on the number or the pilot boat, even which foot the pilot would first put on the ladder, when he came to pilot us safely into the muddy Scheldt. We crowded to the side to look at his ]mv\y figure, clad in a great nor'-wester and long boots, and watched with interest until he l)egan to clind) like a great sprawling beetle up the rope ladder that hung alongside. I found it very interesti.ig to liave so many difi'erent new j)eople about me (I mean foreign people) as are (ju these lielgian steamers. We have a Belgian stewardess, a Danish bed steward, a Flemish night watch, English and (ierman table stewards, a Scotch liead steward, and our captain is from Heligoland, one of those great muscidar descendants of tlie ancient sea kings, wlio are only happy on the bosom of their mother ocean; don't understand the i