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Updated: May 12, 2025
There is something thriving and go-a-head about the place, in spite of unkindly nature. It has one terrible drawback, for rain falls only at intervals of years, sometimes taking a holiday for three or even more years. The people are busy and bustling troops of camels, donkeys, and ostriches continually stream in and out the town, testifying to an extensive trade with the neighbouring states.
Well, the other fellow is a 'regular go-a-head, denounces popery, calculates the millennium, alarms thereby elderly women of both sexes, edifies old maids, who retire to their closets in the evening with the Bible in one hand, and a brandy-bottle in the other; and what he likes best, spiritualizes with the younger ones." "Stop, dear James."
Ask Mullins, the manager of the Exchange Bank, who comes hustling over to his office from the Mariposa House every day at 10.30 and has scarcely time all morning to go out and take a drink with the manager of the Commercial; or ask well, for the matter of that, ask any of them if they ever knew a more rushing go-a-head town than Mariposa.
"If," said Dick Avenel to himself, as he returned fretfully homeward "if a man like me, who has done so much for British industry and go-a-head principles, is to be catawampously champed up by a mercenary, selfish cormorant of a capitalist like that interloping blockhead in drab breeches, Tom Dyce, all I can say is, that the sooner this cursed old country goes to the dogs, the better pleased I shall be.
Business with these men is in general quite a "go-a-head" sort of affair, and not being accompanied with method, in many cases leads to an embarrassed state of circumstances.
Being a rough sort of citizen didn't affect me as long as I had the straight up-and-down principles within. Well, I got up the go-a-head, and walked in steady. 'T'wont do! citizen Smooth! interposes the flunkey, putting out his right hand as his face reddened into a blaze.
Here Captain S. remained to await his passage back to Canada; not much disposed to try such a jaunt of pleasure again, I suspect, and Lieutenant L., taking a canoe for himself with a view of prosecuting his scientific researches more at leisure than our go-a-head mode of travelling admitted, left us also.
The last station, Peterborough, presents an instance of a city without population, without manufactures, without trade, without a good inn, or even a copy of the Times, except at the railway station; a city which would have gone on slumbering to the present hour without a go-a-head principle of any kind, and which has nevertheless, by the accident of situation, had railway greatness thrust upon it in a most extraordinary manner.
All I should have to do, he explained, would be to put a small sum into the concern so as to be independent, as it were, and not merely accepting "a big thing" at his hands and, my fortune was made. If I would contribute, say, five hundred dollars "a mere song" we might go joint shares in what would turn out to be a most remarkably go-a-head enterprise; yes, sir! Strange!
They have, however, kindly furnished me with a scrawl of introduction to the establishment now in town, some of whom I shall have the honor to meet, in the character of an out-and-out liberal sporting gentleman, at the "Albemarle Arms" this evening. I want to get hold of his confidential valet, if he had one those go-a-head fellows generally have a Swiss, or some other foreign animal."
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