GENTLEMEN EMIGRANTS. 7 



only try to disabuse his mind of the idea that he will 

 always find a venison steak at hand in the colony when 

 he wants it. 



I would not take the responsibility upon myself of 

 advising any young fellow to emigrate whose education 

 and "bringing up" have made him a conventional 

 English gentleman, and nothing else. It is a very good 

 thing to be an English gentleman in the ordinary accep- 

 tation of the word a very good thing indeed, and it by 

 no means disqualifies him from being a good colonist; but 

 something more is needed. All public offices, all appoint- 

 ments in the colonial military and naval services, together 

 with professional appointments, commercial appointments, 

 bank appointments, are as crowded and as eagerly sought 

 after as in the old country. An outsider stands no chance 

 whatever. The reason of this rush to the towns may be 

 found in the dislike to country life which is common to 

 Americans and most colonists. When a man makes money 

 in the country, he likes to go to town and spend it, and, 

 if possible, get into the House of Assembly and listen to 

 his own voice. In this respect he is unlike the English- 

 man, who, when he has made his money in the city, often 

 moves into the country to spend it. In preparing, there- 

 fore, for colonial life, the unprofessional Englishman must 

 turn his thoughts to country pursuits, probably farming 

 of some sort ; more especially so as the before-mentioned 

 disinclination of colonial-born men to country life, while 

 it overcrowds the cities, leaves all the more openings in 

 the country. 



The question now arises, why should not a certain pro- 

 portion of gentlemen's sons be educated specially for 



