CHAPTER III.
Popular ignorance—The garden island—Summer and winter contrasted—A wooden capital—Island politics, and their consequences—Gossip—"Blowin- time"—Religion and the clergy—The servant nuisance—Colonial society—An evening party—An island premier—Agrarian outrage—A visit to the Indians—The pipe of peace—An Indian coquette—Country hospitality—A missionary—A novel mode of lobster-fishing—Uncivilised life—Far away in the woods—Starvation and dishonesty—An old Highlander and a Highland welcome—Hopes for the future.
CHAPTER IV.
From St. George's Cross to the Stars and Stripes—Unpunctuality— Incompetence—A wretched night—Colonial curiosity—The fashions—A night in a buffalo robe—A stage journey—A queer character—Politics— Chemistry—Mathematics—Rotten bridges—A midnight arrival—Colonial ignorance—Yankee conceit—What ten-horse power chaps can do—The pestilence—The city on the rock—New Brunswick—Steamboat peculiarities —Going ahead in the eating line—A storm—Stepping ashore.
CHAPTER V.
First experiences of American freedom—The "striped pig" and "Dusty Ben"
—A country mouse—What the cars are like—Beauties of New England—The
land of apples—A Mammoth hotel—The rusty inkstand exiled—Eloquent eyes
—Alone in a crowd.
CHAPTER VI.
A suspected bill—A friend in need—All aboard for the Western cars—
The wings of the wind—American politeness—A loquacious conductor—
Three minutes for refreshments—A conversation on politics—A
confession—The emigrant car—Beauties of the woods—A forest on fire—
Dangers of the cars—The Queen City of the West.
CHAPTER VII.
The Queen City continued—Its beauties—Its inhabitants, human and equine—An American church—Where chairs and bedsteads come from—Pigs and pork—A peep into Kentucky—Popular opinions respecting slavery— The curse of America.