title: Literary Lapses (New Canadian Library)
author:  Stephen Leacock 
description: The humour, irony, and wit of Stephen Leacock have never been shown to better advantage than in <i>Literary Lapses</i>, his first collection of comic writings. Within its pages are such classic stories as the man who is seized by fear as he opens a bank account; the awful case of the young man who dies because he cannot tell a lie; the astonishing tale of the baby who ate thirteen Christmas dinners, and many other tales that have become part of the world's comic literature.<br /><br />When <i>Literary Lapses</i> first appeared in 1910, it was an instant critical and popular success. Within a few years of its publication, Leacock was acknowledged as the English-speaking world?s most beloved humourist.
zlib_text: ## CANADA
  
  #### AND
  
  ## THE CANADIANS.
  
  ##### BY
  
  ### SIR RICHARD HENRY BONNYCASTLE, Kt. ,
  
  ##### LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ROYAL ENGINEERS AND MILITIA OF CANADA WEST.
  
  ######  **NEW EDITION.**
  
  ###### IN TWO VOLUMES.
  
  ###### VOL. I.
  
  **LONDON:  
  HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,  
  GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.  
    
  1849.**
  
  F. Shoberl, Jnr. Printer to H.R.H Prince Albert, Rupert Street.
  
  * * *
  
  ### CONTENTS
  
  ##### OF
  
  ### THE FIRST VOLUME.
  
  ####  [CHAPTER I.](text00000.html#filepos0000003179)
  
  Emigrants And Immigration
  
  ####  [CHAPTER II.](text00000.html#filepos0000049470)
  
  The Emigrant and his Prospects
  
  ####  [CHAPTER III.](text00000.html#filepos0000099129)
  
  A Journey to the Westward
  
  ####  [CHAPTER IV.](text00000.html#filepos0000138704)
  
  The French Canadian
  
  ####  [CHAPTER V.](text00000.html#filepos0000158206)
  
  Penetanguishene—The Nipissang Cannibals, and a Friendly Brother in the
  Wilderness
  
  ####  [CHAPTER VI.](text00000.html#filepos0000184780)
  
  Barrie and Big Trees—A new Capital of a new District—N