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Lines on a civic holiday trip on the Grand Trunk, to Toronto, August, 1882. Address to Mr. Hodge, conductor of Caledonian games at Ingersoll.
From Ingersoll, on Canadian Thames, / We come to greet mine host of the St. James, / This being our town's civic holiday;
Yet we remember twenty-fourth of May, / For then at our Caledonian games / He did loud proclaim the victors' names.
We came in part to contribute / To our town's mechanics' institute, / Who got up this grand excursion / Where each one has his own diversion.
Some did remain at Burlington Bay, / While we to Toronto did wend our way, / And came to see this presentation / To stalwart son of Scottish nation.