. Maple leaves, 1894 [microform] : Canadian history, literature, ornithology. Birds; Authors, Canadian; Oiseaux; Ecrivains canadiens. â 221 â ' .Tud^'c of my surprise, wlion, on his jiointing to a sliolf in the. liltrnry, my eyes lit nn the titles of several of my own works, neatly bound, which, it seems, he had himself ordered from Quebec, with other Canadian publications. After a most cordial iiiterview, the silvery-haired sdijittif, a handsome old man, invited mo to a Di'jcn. nor d lit Ftnirelieffr, as he styled it, on the ensuiuL;' Thursday to meet with some (»f his I'aris friends, severa
. Maple leaves, 1894 [microform] : Canadian history, literature, ornithology. Birds; Authors, Canadian; Oiseaux; Ecrivains canadiens. â 221 â ' .Tud^'c of my surprise, wlion, on his jiointing to a sliolf in the. liltrnry, my eyes lit nn the titles of several of my own works, neatly bound, which, it seems, he had himself ordered from Quebec, with other Canadian publications. After a most cordial iiiterview, the silvery-haired sdijittif, a handsome old man, invited mo to a Di'jcn. nor d lit Ftnirelieffr, as he styled it, on the ensuiuL;' Thursday to meet with some (»f his I'aris friends, several leadin<f gentleman from Canada, then visiting Paris. I gladly accepted, jjostixjiiing any other engagement I might liave on that day to the ])leasure I anticipated at such a renm'on. The Di'jonicr a la Foiirchctte, was fixed for , A. M., and reminded me, oidy that it was for an earlier hour of the day, of a rcchrreln' English hnuiheoti. Punctually, on the apjiointed day, a sunny August forenoon, I attended. ()ur kind host exjiressed his concern that the summer vacation had taken to the Pyranees and to Trouville, some of the friends he had counted on to meet the invites from the shores of the St. Lawrenceâamong others, AI. Rameau de .Saint-Pcre, the author of " La France aux Coloni(is ": the names of the otluu's, have since escaped my memory. I was hapi)y to meet two compatriots, the Hon. J. A. â r'' was not a Horculos. Losing his wife and daugiitcr at an early dato, lie lived alone. " One of his keenest sorrows was tlio demolition of tlie house, in the line Saint Thomas d'A<juin, wliere ho had r<'sided 40 years, and wlien ho was tbrcL'd to remove to the Hue ile Babylono it seemed to liim as if lie were removing into the world from which no traveller returns. .\nd lie was not fa" wrong, tor death soon followed. That siicii a man should eschew all pomp and vanity was natural, llenee iiohody i-; stn'prised that in his will he oi'dains tlia
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