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and sport, instead of — as he will find it — mostly hard 

 work. For clothing, all that is wanted is a good-sized 

 portmanteau, containing the ordinary outfit of a gentle- 

 man, with a few extra flannel shirts and socks. 



And novf, before taking leave of our book, can we say 

 a few words that may help you young Englishmen, to 

 whom my heart often yearns, as I see you so full of life 

 and hope starting on your journey through life ? Bear 

 in mind that the day you step on board the steamer, 

 leaving father and mother, or dear friends wdio have 

 thought for and screened you, far more than you have 

 known, from the many evils that so particularly attend 

 you at your time of life, that from that moment you 

 begin the fight single-handed. That one of the first 

 great evils, the scourge of drinking, w^ill meet you at 

 once — the rock that wrecks and utterly blights the lives 

 of thousands of you. Make up your mind at once on 

 the subject, and let it be never to drink any intoxi- 

 cating liquors, saving at meal-time, unless under most 

 exceptional circumstances, and keep to it firmly, but 

 quietly. You may have seen cases of ruin by drink in 

 England, but you can know nothing of the fearful curse 

 it is in all the colonies ; and most of it brought about by 

 a silly habit young men have of asking each other 

 to take a liquor when neither want it ; it is done to 

 wile away a few minutes, or to appear friendly, and 



