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Updated: June 26, 2025
Once a vagabond on his own canal, I have received good turns from one of these Canallers; I thank him heartily; would fain be not ungrateful; but it is often one of the prime redeeming qualities of your man of violence, that at times he has as stiff an arm to back a poor stranger in a strait, as to plunder a wealthy one.
When I was with her, I could not overcome my bashfulness, my lack of experience, my ignorance of every manner of approach except that of the canallers to the waterside women, with which I suddenly found myself as familiar through memory as with the route from my plate to my mouth; that way I had fully made up my mind to adopt; but something held me back.
There was a lock just below, but I seldom went to it because all the drivers were egged on to fight each other during the delay at the locks, and the canallers would have been sure to set them on me for the fun of seeing a fight. On the most eventful evening of my life, perhaps. I sat on this stump, watching a boat which, after passing me, was slowing down and stopping.
At Montreal, the elections have been disgraced by bodies of these canallers having been employed to intimidate and overawe voters; and, were it not that a large military force is always at hand there, no election could be made of a member, whose seat would be the unbiassed and free choice of his constituents.
'We have seen many whale-ships in our harbours, but never heard of your Canallers. Pardon: who and what are they? "'Canallers, Don, are the boatmen belonging to our grand Erie Canal. You must have heard of it. "'Nay, Senor; hereabouts in this dull, warm, most lazy, and hereditary land, we know but little of your vigorous North. "'Aye? Well then, Don, refill my cup.
As a matter of fact the sailors on the Lakes were no rougher than the canallers and I guess not so rough.
"He'll be back after a while," said she. "Poor young one! Come with me and get a good sleep." I was numb with sleep, and staggered when I stood up; and she put her arm around me as we moved toward the door, where we were met by two men, canallers or sailors, by their looks, who stopped her with drunken greetings. "Ketchin' em young, Sally," said one of them.
Hardly had he done so, when he was surrounded by the three junior mates and the four harpooneers, who all crowded him to the deck. But sliding down the ropes like baleful comets, the two Canallers rushed into the uproar, and sought to drag their man out of it towards the forecastle.
'We have seen many whaleships in our harbors, but never heard of your Canallers. Pardon: who and what are they? "'Canallers, Don, are the boatmen belonging to our grand Erie Canal. You must have heard of it. "'Nay, Senor; hereabouts in this dull, warm, most lazy, and hereditary land, we know but little of your vigorous North. "'Aye? Well then, Don, refill my cup.
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