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camps the men can be boarded for a little less, 

 33^ cents a day being the allowance for food per 

 man, though these men, doing hard work in the 

 keen open air, have giants' appetites to satisfy 

 and giants' muscles to maintain. Of course the 

 food is plain ; boiled beef sometimes, bacon more 

 often, beans, brown sugar, bread, and maple 

 syrup these are the principal items in the lum- 

 berer's bill of fare ; but the quality of this simple 

 food must be good, and the quantity unstinted, 

 or there will soon be grumbling in the shanties. 



Apropos of lumbering, it is fair to remind 

 emigrants, attracted by this most fascinating of 

 all forms of physical labour, that the lumberer is 

 not employed all the year round, so that a man 

 taking to the axe for a livelihood must b'e pre- 

 pared to work at some other employment during 

 those months in which the gangs are out of the 

 timber limits. 



One more word, and I have done with the 

 emigrant labourer. The Commission which sat 

 on the Chinese Question in British Columbia, 

 brought to light incidentally a few facts of 

 interest to our unemployed. There were unem- 

 ployed in England before the date of that Com- 

 mission, just as there are now. I believe there is 

 work in Canada, and handsome wages for English 

 muscle and English energy, just as there was 



