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Transcriber's Note:

 Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
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    Small Boy'. Not changed.
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    104 to Page 103.
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    'Two Loaves--a Contrast'. Not changed.
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    and "Becky Sharp" and added above "Commodore", "Becky Sharp" and
    "Cherub" respectively.




       By JOHN HABBERTON.

    I. OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN.
         By the author of "Helen's Babies,"    $1 25

   II. BUDGE AND TODDIE. An Illustrated
         Edition of "Other People's Children,"  1 75

  III. THE SCRIPTURE CLUB OF
         VALLEY REST; or, Sketches of
         Everybody's Neighbors,                 1 00

   IV. THE BARTON EXPERIMENT,                   1 00


  _G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, Publishers,_

                                 _New York_.

[Illustration: The Cook Jibes.]


 CANOEING IN KANUCKIA

 OR

 HAPS AND MISHAPS

 AFLOAT AND ASHORE

 OF

 THE STATESMAN, THE EDITOR, THE ARTIST, AND THE SCRIBBLER

 RECORDED BY

 THE COMMODORE AND THE COOK

 (C. L. NORTON AND JOHN HABBERTON)


 ILLUSTRATED


 NEW YORK
 G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
 182 FIFTH AVENUE
 1878.

 COPYRIGHT BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, 1873.

 DEDICATION.

 THIS

 VOLUME

 IS

 AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF

 KING CANUTE,

 WHO TOOK

 A

 ROYAL DUCKING

 WITH AN EQUANIMITY WHICH FAIRLY ENTITLES
 HIM TO RECOGNITION

 BY

 THE CANOE CLUB.




 PREFACE.


Melancholy as the admission must necessarily be to persons with
aspirations toward literary Art, the authors are forced to acknowledge
that most of the incidents recounted therein actually occurred during
a canoeing cruise to the Northward, in which they were participants;
that the localities described have a geographical existence, and that
the persons introduced and the experiences recorded are, with trifling
exceptions, true to the life. They frankly admit that they might not
have been so truthful had they suffered from lack of incident, but
their perplexities have arisen from too much good material instead of
too little. Departures from strict veracity have been made solely on
the ground of good fellowship.

The authors being blessed with ordinary human perception, it is
not strange that they fully realize their own superiority to their
companions in point of virtue, manliness, good-seamanship, personal
appearance, adaptability, etc., etc. They have thought it simply
honorable, therefore, to separate individual traits and experiences,
each by themselves, and redistribute them without prejudice or
partiality among the entire quartette.

As the effect of this generosity has been to cause some doubt on the
part of each member of the expedition as to his own personal identity,
it is certain that no one of them can be successfully reconstructed by
any outsider. How unalloyed a blessing the public thus enjoys, is not
for the self-renouncing authors to point out in detail.

       *       *       *       *       *

P. S. BY THE COOK. It has been found impracticable to prevent the
Commodore from causing to be inserted in the following pages certain
efforts of his own which he is pleased to denominate "Sketches." He is
apparently actuated by the hope that they will pass for professional
work. The real Artist of the expedition, however, being solicitous
