rved for the first few minutes, and it was I who had
to become more human.

"He is a young man who has something to say, and who has ears to listen
to things worth while. He has no use for preliminaries or any other
nonsense that wastes time in 'getting together.'"

He lunched at the club and drifted about among the people gathered on
the lawns before going for a hard walk over the hills.

II

The real day of functions was on Monday, when the Prince drove through
the streets, visiting many places, and, later, speaking impressively at
a citizens' lunch in the Palliser Hotel.

His passage through the streets was cheered by big crowds, but crowds
of a definite Western quality. Here the crowns of hats climbed high,
sometimes reaching monstrous peaks that rise as samples of the Rockies
from curly brims as monstrous. Under these still white felt altitudes
are the vague eyes and lean, contemplative faces of the cattlemen from
the stock country around. Here and there were other prairie types who
linger while the tide of modernity rushes past them. They are the
Indians, brown, lined and forward stooping, whose reticent eyes looking
out from between their braided hair seem to be dwelling on their long
yesterday.

At the citizens' lunch the Prince departed from his usual trend of
speech-making to voice some of the impressions that this new land had
brought to him. He once more spoke of the sense of spaciousness and
possibility the vast prairies of the West had given him, but today he
went further and dwelt upon the need of making those possibilities
assured. The foundation that had made the future as well as the
present possible, was the work of the great pioneers and railway men
who had mastered the country in their stupendous labours, and made it
fit for a great race to grow in.

The foundation built in so much travail was ready. Upon it Canada must
build, and it must build right.

"The farther I travel through Canada," he said, "the more I am struck
by the great diversities which it presents; its many and varied
communities are not only separated by great distances, but also by
divergent interests. You have much splendid alien human material to
assimilate, and so much has already been done towards cementing all
parts of the Dominion that I am sure you will ultimately succeed in
accomplishing this great task, but it will need the co-operation of all
parties, of all classes and all races, working together for