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up and is selling high. Anytime that any of your firm are in 

 this part of the world, I hope you will make my house your tem- 

 porary home." 



TLe Rev. Gr. C. writes, October .31st, 1883: 



" I am obliged to go out to-day or I should have written to Quebec. 

 thank you for the very satisfactory letter respecting my son. On 

 Monday evening we received a long letter from him exactly to the 

 same ekecij. He expresses himself quite pleased and happy, and 

 I doubt not will continae to be so." 



Again, February 21st, 1884 : 



'' Indeed we are so satisfied that we have spoken very favour- Ontario. 

 ably of your firm to several parties, and have advised the sending 

 of their sons in the same way." 



Mrs. L. S. writes, jSTovember 7th, 1883 : 



" I frequently hear from him, and he seems very happy, and Ontario. 

 likes the life in Canada very much." 



F. G-. H. B. writes, November 17tb, 1883, after two 

 years' experience as a pupil in Wisconsin : 



" I arrived home safely on the 29th of October, after a very Wisconsin 

 pleasant though rather long voyage. I expect to be in town either 

 next week or the week after, and will then call on you. I can 

 only say now, after nearly two years' experience, that I have 

 never regretted going under your system, and only wish I had 

 gone sooner." * 



F. H. H. writes, December, 1883 : 



'' If you happen to be writing to Ford, Rathbone & Co., you Minnesota 

 can tell them that I am exceedingly pleased with all the arrange- 

 ments they have made. They r&ade me think that the life here 



would be rougher than it really is. Mr. C makes a splendid 



agent, as he looks me up from time to time, although I am thirty- 

 five miles from him." 



W. J. p. writes from Kentucky, December 1st, 1883 : 



" I am almost as comfortable with Mr. J as I should be at Kentucky. 



home. Of course the living is totally different, but as far as kind- 

 ness goes I have nothing to complain of. Mr. J is a very 



considerate man, and does not expect from me any more than I 

 can do. With regard to the work, I found it rather hard at first, 

 but I am getting quite accustomed to it by this time. On the 

 whole I Jike farming very well. My friends the o^her English- 

 men out here are, I tliink, very comfortable." 



