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...Quaint the port of Bonney Castle...
...special car, and arrived at Montreal on Friday, after a very comfortable journey. The next morning was spent for the most part in making purchases; and after separating into parties, the different members of the team drove around to see the "sights," and were much entertained by the quaint costumes and buildings of this fine old city. In the afternoon they went to McGill College, where they practised for a short time in a scrub game with each other; all the men seemed to be in fine condition, and everything seemed to point to the conclusion that the game...
Everything was done for them, besides the great dinner on Saturday night, - knots of Harvard men were entertained every day at the three clubs; they were driven up the picturesque mountain, shown the many points of historical interest in the suburbs and surrounding country, escorted all over the quaint city, taken to the Lacrosse match, steeple-chases, fox-hunt, and to dinners and breakfasts every day at the clubs or at private houses...
...learned discourses of that august body, - though he do any or all of these, the chances are ten to one he will never once meet with that strange creature, the literary butterfly. Yet it is not a rara avis of which I speak; nor do I tell quaint fables of learned animals of the olden time; for even now, here in our midst, several species of this animal are found. To speak scientifically, literary butterflies are bipeds, of the genus Homo. Their bodies are regularly shaped and their wings, though formed of thin tissues of imagination, often grow to great...
...places in this little world of ours are more attractive than Granada. The crumbling walls of the Alhambra; the splendid relics of the greatness of the old Moorish kings; the quaint gardens of the Generaliffe; the grand views of the snowy Sierra on the one hand and of the olive-clad plains of Andalusia on the other; the great shapeless cathedral, where the Catholic kings sleep beneath the tattered standards of the Conquest; the quaint, dirty buildings; the quainter, dirtier peasantry; and, quaintest and dirtiest of all, the dark-eyed gypsies of sleepy old Spain; it is the home...