The Elgin boiler was his object-lesson in the development of the colonies; he paid, several visits to the works to study it, and several times he thanked Mr Milburn for the opportunity of familiarizing himself with such an important and promising branch of Canadian industry.
"It looks," said Octavius one evening in early February, "as if the Grits were getting a little anxious about South Fox--high time, too.
I see Cruickshank is down to speak at Clayfield on the seventh, and Tellier is to be here for the big meeting at the opera house on the eleventh." "Tellier is Minister of Public Works, isn't he ?" asked Hesketh.
"Yes--and Cruickshank is an ex-Minister," replied Mr Milburn.

"Looks pretty shaky when they've got to take men like that away from their work in the middle of the session." "I shall be glad," remarked his daughter Dora, "when this horrid election is over.

It spoils everything." She spoke a little fretfully.

The election and the matters it involved did interfere a good deal with her interest in life.

As an occupation it absorbed Lorne Murchison even more completely than she occasionally desired; and as a topic it took up a larger share of the attention of Mr Alfred Hesketh than she thought either reasonable or pleasing.