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whatever part of the earth they may favour with their 

 presence, and to ram English ways and English notions 

 down the throats of the ignorant natives. It is not un- 

 common to see a Britisher just arrived in the bush as- 

 suming an air of superiority in all matters, great or small, 

 and endeavouring to teach the old colonist everything, 

 from milking his cow to governing his colony. In time 

 he finds out his mistake, but often not before he has 

 wasted all his money. Other men never get beyond the 

 city. I once met a friend in the streets of New York, 

 driving two old ladies and a Skye terrier in a one-horse 

 brougham. He left the old ladies in a " store," boxed 

 up the Skye, hung the old horse to a lamp-post, and we 

 liquored up at a neighbouring bar. He informed me that 

 he got thirty dollars a month and his clothes. He is 

 on a surer road to success than he was when, some years 

 ago, with the price of his commission and two imported 

 thoroughbreds, he endeavoured to indoctrinate the Ameri- 

 can mind with the superiority of real racing over trotting. 

 Others, who have friends to fall back upon, return from 

 the colonies, and spend the remainder of their lives in 

 assuring their acquaintances that the "colonies are a 

 mistake," and that " every man thinks he is as good as 

 you are there." The colonies are not a mistake they 

 are a splendid reality ; but colonial men are hard to beat 

 on their own ground, and the Englishman should know 

 what he is about, who enters for colonial stakes. 



Englishmen are proverbially hard to get on with at 

 first. They cannot get over their insularity. See at the 

 railway station the swell who enters a first-class carriage ; 

 he deposits his gun-case, &c., in the rack, he seats himself 



