16$ LONDON FAMILY IN THE BUSH. 



reconciled to her situation ; and her household and family mat 

 ters testify to her excellent management. Two sons, hand 

 some, genteel-looking youths, about fifteen or sixteen years 

 of age, chop trees, and perform all sort of farm work. The 

 young ladies seem equally active in their department. I was 

 anxious to see the cows milked, but unfortunately they had 

 strayed in the woods, and could not be found while I was 

 there. Jt requires a considerable degree of heroism in people 



like Captain and Mrs A , accustomed to the gaieties and 



luxuries of London life, retiring to the woods of Canada with 

 out a servant or any thing like their former notions of com 

 fort, and whatever may have been the impelling motive for 

 the step they took, their perseverance merits applause. It 

 was an interesting sight to see a young and genteel family so 

 situated and happy in their new position, and the pleasure 

 experienced during my visit at Lamotte, was an ample recom 

 pense for crossing the Atlantic. 



In my progress through Canada I had witnessed female 

 devotion of the most exalted character, which circumstances 

 prevent me noticing, but the same reasons do not apply to the 

 youths of this family, and I trust they will pardon the liberty 

 I take with them. Two slender and accomplished boys, in a 

 part of the world blighting to their first budding hopes and 

 enjoyments, inuring themselves to the hardest manual labour 

 in support of their parents, and infant brothers and sisters, is 

 a picture of disinterested virtue worthy of being delineated by 

 an abler pen. I trust their exertions will be crowned with 

 success, and that a portion of time, which can be spared from 

 furnishing food, will be devoted to the moral improvement of 

 the younger branches of the family. What a source of comfort 

 these youths must be to their parents, whose precepts must 

 have had no small share in forming their character, and their 

 conduct may be instanced as illustrative of the advantages of 

 parental care, in a selfish point of view, where nobler motives 

 do not exist. Their mode of life may be different from that 

 of their schoolfellows in England, but in mature age they 

 \vill look back with delight on their past labours, and in all 

 probability, great will be their reward in this life, and greater 

 in that which is to come. 



