"My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them."

"Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all dire…"

"Special Correspondence. I learn from a very high authority, whose name I am not at liberty to mention, (speaking to m…"

"The Lord said "Let there be wheat" and Saskatchewan was born."

"With the thermometer at 30 below zero and the wind behind him, a man walking on Main Street in Winnipeg knows which s…"

"It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish."

"Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the deg…"

"I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."

"It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flas…"

"The rushing of his spirit from its prison-house was as rapid as a hunted cat passing over a garden fence."