gretting my departure from the town,
and also presented me with a handsome purse.

CHAPTER XI.

The following morning, November 9th, 1879, I left Emerson for London,
Ontario. Arriving in London I repaired to the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson, the parents of Mrs. Thomas Hooper, whom I rescued from
drowning in the Red River, and was invited to make my home with them
while in London. I was also invited to visit the Sunday School, Pall
Mall Church, in which Mrs. Hooper had been a teacher, and tell them how
Mrs. Hooper fell into the river and how I saved her from drowning. I
received a hearty vote of thanks, and all were delighted that their
dear teacher was well and happy.

The following spring I went East, visiting my friends and relatives in
the township of Reach and Durham County. While visiting Port Hope I met
the late Colonel Williams, who subsequently became a sincere friend of
mine, and in 1882 I was appointed drill instructor at Trinity College
school. Having no gymnasium, my work was confined to military drill.
There was a well-equipped cadet corps officered by the teachers. A very
sad accident occurred during the summer holidays. Mr. Selby Allen, son
of Chancellor Allen, Toronto, a student at the school, was drowned near
Brockville. Mr. Allen was a splendid athlete and a fine cricketer.

In 1887 I was appointed gymnastic and drill instructor to the
Collegiate Institute, Peterboro'. I held this office for eleven years.

Nothing gives me greater pleasure in writing this book than to relate
the pleasant and profitable eleven years I spent in the physical
education of the students of the Collegiate Institute and Central
Public School, and also the convent. I say _profitably_ because the
majority of those who obtained the several courses of instruction are
to-day pursuing their professions and vocations able to meet the
physical endurance of their calling, and all I have met since my
retirement nine years ago I found to be specimens of the highest type
of physical maturity and invariably athletes. There are at present
three doctors practising in this city (Toronto), three teachers in the
public schools, and one in Trinity University, and all are of the same
type.

I am pleased to say that the physique of the ladies also whom I have
met is all that could be desired. Neither have they forgotten the
graceful bearing they were taught. I also had large private classes,
both ladies and gentlemen, who were thoro