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full share. In short, how is it possible, that 

 there should be paupers to any amount, where 

 the common average wages of a labourer are 

 six dollars a week ; that is to say, twenty-seven 

 shillings sterling, and where the necessaries of 

 life are, upon an average, of half the price that 

 they are in England ? How can a man be a 

 pauper, where he can earn ten pounds of prime 

 hog-meat a day, six days in every week? 1 

 was at a horse-race, where I saw at least five 

 thousand men, and not one man in shabby 

 clothes. 



397. But, some go back after they come from 

 England; and the Consul at New York has 

 thousands of applications from men who want 

 to go to Canada ; and little bands of them go 

 off to that fine country very often. These are 

 said to be disappointed people. Yes, they ex 

 pected the people at New York to come out 

 in boats, I suppose, carry them on shore, and 

 give up their dinners and beds to them ! If they 

 will work, they will soon find beds and din 

 ners : if they will not, they ought to have none. 

 What, did they expect to find here the same 

 faces and the same posts and trees that they 

 left behind them ? Such foolish people are not 

 worth notice. The lazy, whether male or fe 

 male, all hate a government, under which every 

 one enjoys his earnings, and no more, Low, 



