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CHAPTER I

When I Was at School

Some of My Boyhood Friends

Getting to Work.

The Rod Was Never Spared

A Cub Reporter

Other Adventures in Employment

Put Off the First Train

CHAPTER II

I Own a Race Horse

A Sailor Bold

Stories of Pets

Poetry—and Me

An Exaggerated Report

A Brief Summary

CHAPTER III

The Live Wires of the Seventies

The Rivalry Between Smith and Schultz

The Political Leaders

I Strike Winnipeg

Something About Hotels

The Trials of a Reporter

Not Exactly an Angelic City

The First Iron Horse

The Pembina Branch

Lord Strathcona—and Profanity

The Republic of Manitoba

The Plot to Secede

CHAPTER IV

Winnipeg the Wicked

Interviewing a Murderer

Schofield’s Escapade

An Express Robbery

The Case of Lord Gordon-Gordon

The Farr Case

Some Prominent Old-Timers

The Inside Story of a Deal

Real Trouble Arises

Always Have Proof

Winnipeg Doctors Play Practical Jokes

A Big Scandal

Donald McEwan and the Waiter

Mistaken Identity

CHAPTER V

An Adventure With Colonel Denison

The Riel Rebellion

Middleton and the Queen

Selected for Dangerous Mission

Lost on the Trail

A Naval Battle in the West

Rescuing the Maclean Family

A Church Parade in the Wilderness

Indian Signals

Some Curious Indian Names.

CHAPTER VI

The Highland Laddie.

The Kindness of Princess Louise.

The Marquis of Lansdowne.

Talking to Aberdeen

A Great Horseman.

Earl Grey.

The Grand Old Duke.

The Duke of Devonshire.

CHAPTER VII

Intrepid Scotch Voyageurs.

The Tale of a Cat.

Indian Humor and Imagery

CHAPTER VIII

Hon. Frank Oliver and Yours Truly.

When Sir Wilfrid Didn’t Blush.

A Scotch Banquet.

Banquets in Winnipeg.

Bouquets and Brick-Bats and Democracy.

Mayor Hylan and the Queen

CHAPTER IX

Adventures in the Occult.

”Getting the Dope” on the “Prof.”

Telepathy and Fortune Telling.

Story of the Haunted House.

CHAPTER X

Mark and the “High-brows.”

The Human Cash Register.

My Old Friend, the Chicago Cub Reporter.

Several Gory Sequences.

Stead and Hinky Dink.

CHAPTER XI

With “Kit” in St. Louis.

The Mormons.

CHAPTER XII

The Leader’s Drill Shed Story.

When “Three Pair” Won.

The Toronto Press.

The Markham Gang.

Comic and Other Papers.

Toronto’s Chief Magistrates.

”Ned”—Hon. Edward Farrer.

Theatrical Recollections.

Bonifaces of the Old Days.

CHAPTER XIII

Col. Irvine’s Services Against Riel.

Treating With Sitting Bull.

The Why of the Scarlet Tunic.

Western Justice As It Was.

Passing Death Sentence on a Nuisance.

Grand Old John Kirkup.

A Lethbridge Pirate.

The Mounted Police To-Day.

CHAPTER XIV

A Really “Substantial” Breakfast.

An Afternoon of Gloom.

To be “Queen of the May”

Down in Washington

Case of “Much Wants More”

Some Anecdotes

Canadian Club

CHAPTER XV

Pawn All But Christmas Stockings.

Everybody Should Believe in Christmas.

CHAPTER XVI

A Man Who Mastered Self.

Youth With Strange Power.

All Faiths Among Patrons.

CHAPTER XVII

Political Tragedies.

A Wit-Provoking Stairway.

The Old War Horse From Cumberland.

Sir John’s Trusted Lieutenant.

Laurier’s Magnetic Personality.

Two Tom Whites.

A Few Veterans.

The Jims.

A Soured Senator

Familiar Faces in the Old Days.

The Social Side of the House.

Not Good Mixers.

When Hansard “Mixed” Metaphors.

Some of the Other Good Fellows.

Some Well-known Members.

Appointing a Governor.

The Wrong Hat.

A Telephone for Each Language.

CHAPTER XVIII

Big Undertaking, Broad Policy.

Conspicuously Canadian.

The First President.

A Temporary President.

Sir William Van Horne.

He Helped Make History.

A Well Informed Porter.

Early Advertising.

His Work in Cuba.

Lord Shaughnessy.

Lord Shaughnessy’s Big Heart.

He Eschewed Public Honors.

His Repartee Like Rapier Thrust.

Hats Off to the Chief.

The Present President.

His Father a Transportation Pioneer.

David McNicoll of the Old Guard.

Vice-President Ogden.

My “Fidus Achates.”

Floored James Oborne.

Haunted by Presentiment.

Captains Courageous.

Masters of the Inland Seas.

The Active Men of To-day.

Some of the Western Men.

Prominent Passenger Men.

The Train Staff.

The Advertising Men.

The Ocean Service.

On the Retired List.

Politics Interfere With Business.

Company Never Evicted a Settler.

Other Old-Timers.

Some Who Have Passed Away.

Some Reminiscences.

Others Gone But Still Remembered.

Medical Staff.

Officials Honored by King.

The Dominion Express Company.

The Live Wires.

Important “First” Trains.

Greeted Train With Music.

A Belated Prosperity.

An Old-Time Roadmaster.

When Coal Was Costly.

Gate-Keeper, I Hope, in Both Worlds.

Don’t Own the Alphabet.

Flour for Lady Macdonald.

Good-bye, My Reader, Good-bye.