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they had to ride. He saw them go through exhausting mounted tests.
His congratulations on their wonderful show were expressed with great
warmth.

III

From Regina the Prince took a holiday. He went up to the sporting
country near Qu'Appelle for duck and game shooting, spending from
Monday, October 6th, until Friday, October 10th, there. This district
abounds in duck, and the Prince and his staff had very fair sport.
During his stay the weather suddenly turned colder, the rivers froze
over and snow fell. So sudden was the cold snap that one of those with
the Prince was caught napping. He woke up to find that his false teeth
were frozen into the solid block of ice that had been water the night
before. He had to take the tooth glass to the kitchen of the house
where he was staying, and thaw it before he could even articulate his
emotions adequately.

Riding in a fast car from the scene of the sport to the station gave
the Prince an indication of what winter would be like in the prairies,
where the wind from the north sweeps down unresisted, and with such a
force that it seems to go right through all coats, save the Canadian
winter armour of "coon coat" or fur.

Brandon and Portage la Prairie, two determined little towns, gave the
Prince a snow welcome. The weather kept neither grown-ups nor children
away from the liveliest of greetings. They were attractive halts in a
run that took the Prince to Winnipeg.

In Winnipeg we appreciated the virtues of central heating, for the wind
made the whole universe extraordinarily cold. Up to this I had
considered central heating a stuffy subject, and I am yet not fully
converted, for though there are those who say it can be controlled
quite easily, I have yet to meet the superman who can do it.

All the same, steam heating has its virtues. On those cold days in
Winnipeg we lived in a world that knew not draughts. It was almost a
solemn joy to sit in a bath, and to feel that though half of one was in
hot water, the other half was also comfortable and not the prey of
every devilish current of icy air such as sports itself in those damp
refrigerators, the British bathrooms. Naturally, since we are staying
in a Canadian hotel of the up-to-date kind, a bathroom was attached to
our bedroom as a mere matter of course. But if we had had to wander
Anglicanly along corridors in search of a bathroom we should still have
been draught free, for central heating deal