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APPENDIX. 



OPINIONS OF THOSE WHO HAVE GONE AND OF 

 THEIE FRIENDS. 



It has been suggested by several correspondents that a 

 few of the written opinions of the fi'iends of those who 

 have gone out under our care should be appended, so that 

 inquirers may be able at once to form an opinion upon the 

 testimony of those having actual experience of the life as 

 to the advantage of the openings here proposed. We avail 

 ourselves of this suggestion, which will serve at once to 

 place before applicants some idea of the young men's 

 opinion of the life, without requiring at an early stage of 

 the negotiation an actual reference to parents, which we 

 do not always feel at liberty to give unrestrictedly in the 

 first instance, solely because it would be trespassing unduly 

 on their kindness by asking them to engage in such an 

 extensive correspondence as an immediate reference to 

 them would involve. 



For the saJce of hrevity in this edition we omit about 100 

 letters quoted in a former edition. We shall be happy to 

 show the originals of the following extracts, which, with 

 others too numerous to set out, cover the years 1880, 1881, 

 1882, 1883, 1884 and 1885. They relate to Canada, 

 'Tasmania, and the United States. 



Mrs. J. H., November 9th, 1881 : 



" I cannot express the grratitude I feel to your agents in Minnesota 

 America for their trouble with my son, and I am exceedingly 

 rejoiced to find he has listened to them and been induced to go to 

 work again, and I trust he has made up his mind to be contented." 



Again, December 12th, 1881, about her son: 



" He is quite comfortable where he is, and likes his work, par- 

 ticularly that which concerns the animals." 



