February 14 Saturday – Sam was introduced to tobogganing by 74 young ladies from Helmuth Female College, “2 ½ miles” out from town. It was twelve below zero.

You sit in the midst of a row of girls on a long broad board with its front curled up, & away you go, like lightning….the sport was so prodigiously exciting & entertaining that it was well for us it was cut short by telephonic message that the train was being held for us; otherwise we should have tired ourselves to death…Tobagganing is very violent fun…[Feb. 15 to Livy; MTP].

Sam and Cable gave a reading in Toronto, Canada, again at the Horticultural Gardens Pavilion. This time the audience was only half as large as their Dec. 8 and 9 sellouts a few weeks before [Roberts 22].

Charles Webster sent Sam a financial report that showed Sam earning $14,168.50 for the tour through the week ending Feb. 7 [Cardwell 11].