Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Golden Land: The True Story and Experiences of Settlers in Canada
The titled lady, her son and the pig-sty - Music and literature on the prairie-a garden of perfumed pretti ness - Jim recalls his past - Petty larceny and the training-ship - Assaulting a bully at sea-homeless in London - A visit to Stepney Causeway - Sent out to Canada - From farm boy to landowner - The fruits of seven years' toil - My visit to Mr. Green - A workhouse boy grown prosperous - Wheat on low land: expen sive experience - A Barnardo couple - Their children and the skunk - A housewife's philosophy - How to live free of cost-the way to make fowls pay - Ex changing eggs and butter for groceries and clothes Why the Fishers have no butcher's bill - co-operative production and distribution: the working of a Beef Ring explained - The Canadian winter its delights and drawbacks-concerning frost-bites - Children on horse back - Loneliness and the telephone - The far-away poverty Tell them to come.
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