. Minnesota and the far West : . smartones too, said our entertainer; there aint manymen in St Paul thats made your journey. Fm theagent of the Eock Island Eailway, and Ill tell youwhat—Ill trade tickets to Chicago for the hull fourof you against your canoe, this hyar gun, and themfixings, right off; and if youve a mind to do thething cheap, dont think twice about it, for you wontget such an offer from the coon over the way. Wesaid we were not smart enough to embark so rapidlyin the speculation ; and then followed a series ofinquiries as to the present condition of Superior, andits future pros
. Minnesota and the far West : . smartones too, said our entertainer; there aint manymen in St Paul thats made your journey. Fm theagent of the Eock Island Eailway, and Ill tell youwhat—Ill trade tickets to Chicago for the hull fourof you against your canoe, this hyar gun, and themfixings, right off; and if youve a mind to do thething cheap, dont think twice about it, for you wontget such an offer from the coon over the way. Wesaid we were not smart enough to embark so rapidlyin the speculation ; and then followed a series ofinquiries as to the present condition of Superior, andits future prospects—for the latest intelligence of itsprogress was as eagerly received by this knot ofspeculators as a Crimean telegraph at the War Office. LOW WATER. 251 We in our turn heard, to our dismay, that the waterin the river was so low that the departure of anysteamer was most uncertain ; so we were fain toconsole ourselves with a comfortable nights rest, andthe prospect of exploring at our leisure the town andits Fort Snelling, CHAPTER XXII. ST PAUL—LOCOMOTIYE DOIXS IN IVEDsNESOTA. St Paul is perhaps the best specimen to be foundin the States, of a town still in its infancy with agreat destiny before it. Its progress hitherto hasbeen ecjualled only by Chicago. In 1847 a fewtrading huts, rejoicing under the sobricjuet of PigsEye—a name still retained by some rapids just belowthe town—marked the site of the present city ; andit occurred to some of the French traders and Yankeesquatters upon the unpre-empted land in the neigh-bourhood, to mark out what is called in the States atown plat, without apparently any anticipation ofthe important results which ^Yere ultimately toattend their speculation ; indeed, they were some-Avhat old-fashioned in their notions, and laid out theirplat in what one of the present citizens, in his accountof the first years of St Paul, caUs little skewdan-gular lots, about as large as a stingy card of ginger-bread broke in two diagon
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