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and the like. You must be a field carpenter as well as
a house carpenter.

O. I will, sir.

Mr. B. Very well; then I engage you; but you
had better bring two or three able hands along with
you.

D. Iam a blacksmith, sir.

Mr. B. An excellent companion for the carpenter !
We cannot do without either of you; so you may
bring your great bellows and anvil, and we will set up
a forge for you as soon as we arrive. But, by the by,
we shall want a mason for that purpose.

HE. I am one, sir.

Mr. B. That’s well. Though we may lve in log
houses at first, we shall want brick or stone work for
chimneys, and hearths, and ovens, so there will be em-
ployment fora mason. But if you can make bricks
and burn lime too, you will be still more useful.

#. I will try what I can do, sir.

_ Mr. B. Nomancandomore. LIengage you. Who
is next?

, J am a shoemaker, sir.

Mr. B. And shoes we cannot well do without. But
can you make them, lke Kumeus in the Odyssey, out
of a raw hide? for I fear we shall get no leather.

#. But I can dress hides, too.

Mr, B. Can you? Then you are a clever fellow,
and I will have you, though 1 give you double wages.

G. I am a tailor, sir.

Mr. B. Well—Though it will be some time before
we want holiday suits, yet we must not go naked; so
there will be work for the tailor. But you are not
above mending and patching, I hope, for we must not
mind patched clothes while we work in the woods.

G. J am not, sir.

Mr, B. Then I engage you.

Hf, I am a weaver, sir.

_ Ur. B. Weaving is avery useful art, but I question
i we can find room for it in our colony for the present.