After a time she stopped and let the canoe drift in the hot sunshine.
"I think you'd soon make a good _voyageur_," Thirlwell remarked.

"For one thing, you're determined; I saw you wince once or twice and imagine the paddle-haft hurt." "I must learn to use the pole yet, and mean to try it in the river by and by.

You must pole, I think, when you go up a fast stream ?" "That is so, when you can't use the tracking line.

But I don't see why you are anxious to learn." "I have an object," Agatha answered with a smile.
"Then why don't you practise canoeing at Toronto ?" "The trouble is that I haven't time.

You see, I teach all day." "But you have holidays and the evenings." "My evenings are occupied by study." "I don't know if it's wise to over-work yourself for the advantage of your pupils," Thirlwell remarked.