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young friend of mine in a house I was staying at, 

 and who told me they brewed their beer twice a year, 

 but on my asking him how it was done, exclaimed, 

 '' O ! I don't know. I never bother myself to find out." 

 Now, this young man had an idea of emigrating to the 

 Cape, and on my telling him he hardly showed the spirit 

 that was likely to make a successful colonist, wanted to 

 know if he would have to brew at the Cape. Most 

 probably he would not, but the man that was too in- 

 different to learn how to brew beer when he had the 

 chance would soon find that he did not know heaps of 

 things he ought to know, and, at the best, would be 

 very unlikely to strike out a new course and distinguish 

 himself. It was a wise man that remarked that some 

 men would learn more in a walk down Oxford-street, 

 than others by making a tour through Europe. 



After a young man has determined to emigrate, if 

 there is any time to elapse whilst friends are communi- 

 cated with, he could not spend his time in any better 

 way, if he is going to take up farming in a colony, than 

 by going under a carpenter, and into a mechanical 

 engineer's workshop^ not to learn, but to work. The 

 knowledge he will pick up there will increase his value 

 twofold as an assistant on a Cape farm. At the 

 same time, if he finds that steady manual work and 

 soilinof his hands with oil and orrease are distasteful to 



