A Trip to Manitoba

by Mary Agnes FitzGibbon

CHAPTER XX.

Lakes Smith and Howard—Lovely Lake Scenery—Long Lake—The Little
American—"Wait till you see our Minnetaunka!"—Minneanopolis—Villa
Hotels—A Holiday Town—The Great Flour-mills—St. Paul's—Our American
Cousins—The French Canadian's Story—Kind-hearted Fellow-passengers—A
New Way of Travelling together—The Mississippi—Milwaukee, the Prettiest
Town in Michigan—School-houses—A Peep at Chicago—Market
Prices—Pigs!—The Fairy Tales of Progress—Scotch Incredulity—Detroit
Ferry—Hamilton—Good-bye to my Readers.