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whom you would meet in English country towns, 

 with the addition of a large body of naval officers 

 on duty at Esquimalt, and a resident bar. 



As to education, there is certainly some room 

 for improvement ; but the English gentleman 

 who elects to reside at Victoria should be able 

 to save enough money to send his boy home to 

 one of our English public schools when the lad 

 is old enough for it ; for if you cannot make 

 money as rapidly in Vancouver as you can in 

 the States a point which I do not concede, 

 though I do not feel prepared to argue it at 

 least you can live happily on a small income, and 

 save more than you would make elsewhere. There 

 are no very rich people on the island, no very big 

 entertainments, no rivalry between the squire and 

 the plutocrat, the parson and the squire. If 

 tennis and music, a few dances every year, 

 gardening, and boating, with a lovely home 

 amongst English neighbours, will satisfy a lady, 

 she can be happy at Victoria ; if not, she had 

 better stay at home. If splendid fishing, poor 

 rough-shooting, big -game -shooting, within two 

 or three days of home, will satisfy her husband, 

 and if they can no longer live as they have been 

 accustomed to do in the old country, and make 

 both ends meet, whilst putting by something for 

 the children, let them take tickets by the Allan 



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