JOURNEY FROM GALT TO GODERICH. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Journey from Gait to Goderich Farmer from Roxburghshire 

 Female Worth Improved health of Scotch Farmers Visit 

 Captain A * * * Humming-birds London Family in the 

 Bush Guides Avon\Accommodation German Settler No 

 tices of Nature. 



HAVING letters from some friends in Scotland to a relation 

 of theirs near Gait, who had formerly farmed in Roxburgh 

 shire, I was anxious to deliver the letters personally, and 

 set out at six o clock in the morning in search of his residence, 

 which was difficult to find, from not being named. On en 

 quiring the way at an old man on the road, we got certain 

 information in broad Scotch ; and in the course of conversation, 

 he told us he thought Canada a rough bit at first, but he now 

 liked it. Calling at a house to ask the way, a man said it 

 was one thing to put a question, and another to answer it. 

 Seeing the individual was in a state of brutal intoxication, I 

 walked to the waggon, followed by the poor wretch, vocife 

 rating disgusting oaths, who seemed exasperated by the silence 

 and contempt with which he was treated. I afterwards learned 

 he had a short time before beat his wife out of the house, and 

 was considered on the high road to ruin. 



We at length found the object of our search, Mr T , 



walking in his fields with Mr R , whom I had seen at 



Kingston. Mr T had only reached Canada the year 



before, and was not perhaps fairly set down. The farm he 

 had purchased was mostly cleared, and he was summer fallow 

 ing a considerable extent of land, which was well ploughed, 

 and laid off into regular ridges. He had bought all the 

 manure in the neighbourhood at about sixpence per load, and 

 was laughed at for having done so. The house was built of 

 wood, and two beds were standing in recesses in the apart- 



