A OMkE AND


WORK FOR ALL.


less y~aps that remained out of former abundance,
and A articles as their skill or ingenuty could
manufacture, they prepared a neat and pleasant abode.
In this work the women of the family employed every
leisure moment to increase their comforts, or make the
place attractive, while they were ever ready to help
their husbands and sons in putting in the needed crops
as fast as the land was cleared. While waiting for
these crops to ripen, the men take an hour when needed
to keep a plentiful supply of food by hunting and fish-
ing. Whenever opportunity offered, a few days' work
for neighbors now and then supplied comforts which


they could not raise
sirable. And in this
already see promise
A little self-denial f<
tiers may look with
will have every com
life requires, and ma
tant future when th<
property, with all t]
desirable.
 I am only speak
there are difficulties


from their land, or which were de-
primitive, impromptu home, they
of a bright and peaceful future.
or a few years, and ihese new set-
confidence to the time when they
fort that a healthy, independent
y safely look forward to a not dis-
ey will be the owners of valuable
he luxuries that may be thought


ing of wht I have seen. That
and discouragements between the


first steps, of -auchan undertaking and the day which
will put the %et oh firm foundations, I do not deny.
But tell me of any important enterprise which ever
begins smoothly, and marches on to full consumma-
tion without a ripple of trouble or anxiety-without
many mistakes, and perhaps some serious disasters!
I think there is less to fear in seeking to build up a
 I