THE EMIGRATION QUESTION. 



leave the fatherland can travel, and select a camping 

 ground to suit their incomes and their wants. But it is 

 only right that intending emigrants who will have to 

 make their own way in the world should look the thing 

 fairly in the face ; that they should know what qualifica- 

 tions and what accomplishments will be likely to assist 

 them in their new homes, and what, on the contrary, had 

 better be left behind. 



To commence with the "good family." As our ad- 

 venturer, in all probability, leaves many members of it 

 behind him, let him also, in all fairness, leave his family 

 arms, crest, &c., for the benefit of the majority. He 

 should take with him, however, the pluck and energy 

 and the honourable ambition which enabled his ancestors 

 to found the " good family," leaving behind him to be 

 forwarded afterwards if required, together with the arms 

 and crest aristocratic prejudices, squirearchical stiff- 

 backedness, and social exclusiveness. Not the exclusive- 

 ness that leaves a gentleman to fight shy of snobs and 

 blackguards, but the exclusiveness chiefly developed in 

 the female side of the family, and which shows itself in 

 the Smythes of Smythe Abbey losing no opportunity of 

 asserting that " we do not know the Brownes " of Haw- 

 thorne Villa, though the latter very respectable old 

 gentleman has dropped his H's for fifteen years at the 

 Abbey gates, and Browne, jun., is at Eton, with the heir 

 of all the Smythes. 



Now, as regards the " riding." It is good just so far as 

 that a young fellow who rides well to hounds is probably 

 possessed of good nerve, good health, fair strength and 

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