However, we have had a lively time of it, anyhow.

We have had quite a run of visitors.

The Governor-General came, and we received him with a salute of nine guns.
He brought his family with him.

I observed that carpets were spread from the pier-head to his carriage for him to walk on, though I have seen him walk there without any carpet when he was not on business.

I thought may be he had what the accidental insurance people might call an extra-hazardous polish ("policy" joke, but not above mediocrity,) on his boots, and wished to protect them, but I examined and could not see that they were blacked any better than usual.