The land of open doors; being letters from western CanadaWith foreword by Earl Grey . LAYING STEEL OVER A TRESTLE BRIDGE. THE RUSSIAN S GRAVE Along the New Transcontinental and a Finlander were already buried, we told themen to dig the grave for the Russian. A morebeautiful place no one could desire for a last rest-ing-place. Imagine a long stretch of short greengrass, sloping down to the Athabasca, and allround young green pines ; opposite, the hills rosesteeply from the river, and away to the eastshone the snow-covered peak of Mount us, the forest-covered slopes ran right upt
The land of open doors; being letters from western CanadaWith foreword by Earl Grey . LAYING STEEL OVER A TRESTLE BRIDGE. THE RUSSIAN S GRAVE Along the New Transcontinental and a Finlander were already buried, we told themen to dig the grave for the Russian. A morebeautiful place no one could desire for a last rest-ing-place. Imagine a long stretch of short greengrass, sloping down to the Athabasca, and allround young green pines ; opposite, the hills rosesteeply from the river, and away to the eastshone the snow-covered peak of Mount us, the forest-covered slopes ran right upto the rocky cliffs of Pyramid Mountain, and alongthe side of the hill went the great Transcon-tinental line, in the construction of which thisman, like many another, had met his death. The doctor and I went back and got a wagon,on which we placed the coffin. I jumped upwith the driver, who had much difficulty in re-straining his language, because his team of greymules was obstreperous; but the gravity of thesituation made him do his level best, and it reallywas humorous to see a sudden outburst hastilysmothered with
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