Thy champions yet shall be!"

CHAPTER XVII
Niagara

"Come and worship at a shrine,

Rear'd by hands eternal,

Where the flashing waters shine,

And the turf is ever vernal,

And nature's everlasting voice

For ever cries--rejoice, rejoice!"

S.M.

The night had been one of pouring rain, and the day dawned through a thick veil of misty clouds, on the morning of which we were to start from Toronto to visit the Falls of Niagara.