Then he poured forth a stream of news.

The whole country was aflame with war enthusiasm.

Alberta had offered half a million bushels of oats for the imperial army, and a thousand horses or more.

The Calgary district had recruited two thousand men, the Edmonton district as many more.

All over Canada, from Vancouver to Halifax, it was the same.
From the Wapiti district twenty-six ranchers, furnishing their own horses, had already gone.