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He was a sort of travelling arsenal and got very bold when he got into an unarmed Canadian town. He began shooting holes in verandahs, and if any one went to look out of a window the Idaho desperado threatened to "make him into a sieve." A prominent citizen was made to hold out his hat as a target for this pistol artist.
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. Again, see that big house, with such pretensions to comfort, and even elegance, with its neat slated roof, brass knocker on the door, verandahs to the large sashed windows, and iron railing before the front.
Before you enter the place where the king is there are two gates with many guards, who prevent any one from entering except the captains and men who have business there; and between these two gates is a very large court with its verandahs round it, where these captains and other honoured people wait till the king summons them to his presence.
The lamp would be throwing huge shadows right up to the beams of the roof, the little house lizards catching insects on the walls, the bats doing a mad dervish dance round and round the verandahs outside, and we listening in silent open-mouthed wonder.
After living at Puttihee for two years, I was transferred to another out-factory in the same concern, called Parewah. There was here a very nice little three-roomed bungalow, with airy verandahs all round. It was a pleasant change from Puttihee, and the situation was very pretty.
For the rest, the uncertain shelter of verandahs, porticoes, market-places, open sheds, and, in fine weather, the road-way, esplanade, or some shady tree, have to suffice. As already said, I am quite willing to admit that this question of shelter for the poor is of secondary importance as compared with that of their food-supply.
After breakfast, the two heroines of the occasion went out to their respective side verandahs, and the usual morning programme was carried out. Each frantically waved her hand to the other, calling, "Come over!" Then each vigorously shook her head, shouting: "No, you come over here!" "No, you!" "No, you!" Then Dolly, coaxingly, "Aw, come on, come on over."
They were now come near to the back part of the house. One of the men was engaged about the cooking-fire, which burned with the clear, fierce, essential radiance of cocoa-nut shells. A fragrance of strange meats was in the air. All round in the verandahs lamps were lighted, so that the place shone abroad in the dusk of the trees with many complicated patterns of shadow.
About the centre of the village stood a brick academy, with an open space before it, and surrounded by a succession of wooden verandahs. Aunt Hannah entered the lower story of this building, where some forty children were assembled under a female teacher, who came forward to receive her visitors. "This little girl," said aunt Hannah, "we have adopted her. She must come to school."
The houses are mostly of that cool, homely, wooden kind, with verandahs, on which, or on the steps, the whole family may sit in the evening and observe the passers-by. This is possible for both the rich and the poor, who live nearer each other in Ottawa than in most cities. In general there is an air of civilisation, which extends even over the country round.
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