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that he finds Mr. L. a * jovial old fellow ' and his sons nice boys. 

 He appears to like the work, and tells me there are 150 horses and 

 75 mules on the property. I am greatly comforted to have so 

 cheering a letter, for I feared he might find the work irksome, if 

 not very hard." 



And again, on January l7tli, 1884 : 



" I have the most satisfactory and happy letters from son, and 

 I am sure I should be glad in any way to bear testimony to your 

 kind offices in placing him." 



And again, December 4th, 1,883 : 



" Pray accept my thanks for the kindness and trouble you 

 have taken in placing my son so satisfactorily. I have every 

 reason to be pleased with the result. 



R- F. F. writes, October 4tli, 1883, to our agent : 



" I am still very satisfied with the farm you have placed me on, Kentucky, 

 and like the life very much." 



W. H. C. writes, May 14th, 1884, from Iowa : 



" I have been asked by various people again and again why we Iowa, 

 don't come out here 'on our own hook,' and save a certain amount 

 of money by hiring ourselves to some farmer ? My answer always 

 has been that the experience we gain repays tenfold any expense. 



" To begin with, if an Englishman comes out here to hire 

 himself on a farm, he probably will have to wait about a month or 

 more if there is no one he knows to go to ; tjien supposing he does 

 hire himself to a farmer, his pay for the first few months will cer- 

 tainly be no more than he gets by means of this Agency, and 

 probably not so much, and the farmer is certain to make him act 

 as the errand-boy for all the hands. 



" But the chief argujnent, it seems to me, in favour of this 

 Agency is that the farmer, whose farm he has not had the trouble 

 and delay of finding for himself, will always treat him with a 

 certain amount of respect — in fact, on all the farms where I've seen 

 English boys, and certainly on my own, we have been treated as 

 members of the family. 



" The monthly pay I've found to be ample for everything, pro- 

 vided everything sufficient for winter is brought from home, and 

 his experience is worth three or four bonuses. 



" And, lastly, let me add that Englishmen coming here could 

 not find kinder people than your agents, or more careful over our 

 interests ; and, for myself, I shall never forget their kindness and 

 hospitality to me." 



The Rev. T. C. C, his father, wrote, 2nd June, 1884 : 

 ^' I am glad that my son wrote to you, expressing his thanks. Iowa. 



