h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've just begun reading my old Oxford World's Classics (little blue hardcover) edition of Canadian Short Stories. The first is a little gem from 1895 called 'The Privilege of the Limits' by one Edward Thomson. Of course, in this odd modern world of ours, I can offer the very same story, in a far less enjoyable format, here: http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/55791/

I was struck as I read the story by how the social and judicial attitudes of the community of that time in Ontario remain the attitudes I feel to be particularly Canadian: a strange blending of an impatience with self-serving pomposity and a fastidious attention to honour and the letter of the law (perhaps the election campaign is affecting me); a deep respect for law and order and an equally deep acknowledgement that there are times to just be sensible.