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Even after the completion of the C.P.R. the Globe mocked at the enterprise in this fashion: 'The iron band of Confederation has been completed.... The salubrious Rocky and Selkirk ranges may now become a summer resort for the fashionable and crowded populations situated between Callander and Rat Portage.
'You are always so d upsetting, said Dick, 'that no one can speak to you. Then Dick turned away, and there was nothing more said about Mrs. Smith on that occasion. The next to try her hand was Mrs. Callander. By this time the passengers had become familiar with the ship, and knew what they might and what they might not do.
Subject for debate, `That the present age is degenerate, moved by A.E. Callander, opposed by T. Winter. Boys from the Senior Fifth are invited as auditors."
Meantime the prince forms a very good army, and the Lord Goring, with 10,000 men, shows himself on the borders of Scotland, to try if that might not cause the Scots to recall their forces; and, I am persuaded, had he entered Scotland, the Parliament of Scotland had recalled the Earl of Callander, for they had but 5000 men left in arms to send against him; but they were loth to venture.
Very good inn at Callander, and another at Loch Katrine both raised by the genius of Scott as surely and almost as quickly as the slave of the lamp raises the palace of Aladdin. We spent one day and part of another at Callander and Loch Katrine, and yesterday went to, and slept at, Killin, along a very beautiful, fine, wild, romantic road.
The second-class passengers were not often found intruding across the bar, but the first-class frequently made visits to their friends amidships. In this way Mrs. Callander had become acquainted with our two gold-seekers, and often found herself in conversation with one or the other. Even Miss Green, as has been stated before, would come and gaze upon the waves from the inferior part of the deck.
'No, indeed. But then you are with your friend, and that is much pleasanter than a stranger. 'That would depend on whether the stranger snored, Mrs. Callander. 'Don't talk of snoring, Mr. Caldigate. If you only heard Mr. Callander!
'What a very nice voyage we are having, Mr. Caldigate, Mrs. Callander said one afternoon. 'Yes, indeed. It is getting a little cold now, but we shall enjoy that after all the heat. 'Quite so; only I suppose it will be very cold when we get quite south. You still find yourself tolerably comfortable.
Siddons in the character of Murphy's Euphrasia were the noblest specimens of the human race I ever saw. Synonymy, i.43. He sprang from a race of rebels. 'He united in his person, says Forbes, 'the four earldoms of Errol, Kilmarnock, Linlithgow, and Callander. The last two were attainted in 1715, and Kilmarnock in 1745.
Before going to sleep we rented the draper's house, named it Bide-a-Wee Cottage, engaged daily luncheons and dinners for three persons at the Pettybaw Inn and Posting Establishment, telegraphed to Edinburgh for Jane Grieve, to Callander for Francesca, and despatched a letter to Paris for Mr.
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