I Forgot Those Doleful And Unhumorous Conspirators Among People Who
Fervently Believed In The Place; But Afterwards The Memory Left A Bad
Taste In My Mouth.
Cities, like women, cannot be too careful what sort
of men they allow to talk about them.
Time had changed Vancouver literally out of all knowledge. From the
station to the suburbs, and back to the wharves, every step was strange,
and where I remembered open spaces and still untouched timber, the
tramcars were fleeting people out to a lacrosse game. Vancouver is an
aged city, for only a few days previous to my arrival the Vancouver
Baby - i.e. the first child born in Vancouver - had been married.
A steamer - once familiar in Table Bay - had landed a few hundred Sikhs
and Punjabi Jats - to each man his bundle - and the little groups walked
uneasy alone, keeping, for many of them had been soldiers, to the
military step. Yes, they said they had come to this country to get work.
News had reached their villages that work at great wages was to be had
in this country. Their brethren who had gone before had sent them the
news. Yes, and sometimes the money for the passage out. The money would
be paid back from the so-great wages to come. With interest? Assuredly
with interest.. Did men lend money for nothing in any country? They
were waiting for their brethren to come and show them where to eat, and
later, how to work.
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