When, Therefore, Mr. Brown Whisked Into His Dingy Office, And, But For Our Importunity, Would Have Paid No More Attention To Us Than To Up-Country Customers Without Credit, And When He Proved To Be Willingly, It Seemed To Us, Ignorant Of Baddeck, Our Feelings Received A Great Shock.

It is incomprehensible that a man in the position of Brown with so many boxes of soap and candles to dispose of - should be so ignorant of a neighboring province.

We had heard of the cordial unity of the Provinces in the New Dominion. Heaven help it, if it depends upon such fellows as Brown! Of course, his directing us to Cope was a mere fetch. For as we have intimated, it would have taken us longer to have given Cope an idea of Baddeck, than it did to enlighten Brown. But we had no bitter feelings about Cope, for we never had reposed confidence in him.

Our plan of campaign was briefly this: To take the steamboat at eight o'clock, Thursday morning, for Digby Gut and Annapolis; thence to go by rail through the poetical Acadia down to Halifax; to turn north and east by rail from Halifax to New Glasgow, and from thence to push on by stage to the Gut of Canso. This would carry us over the entire length of Nova Scotia, and, with good luck, land us on Cape Breton Island Saturday morning. When we should set foot on that island, we trusted that we should be able to make our way to Baddeck, by walking, swimming, or riding, whichever sort of locomotion should be most popular in that province.

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