76 CANADIAN WILDS. 



spin religiously through the next twelve 

 months. Some could not withstand the tempta- 

 tion of sampling the liquor enroute, and had 

 very little when they reached home. 



It was one of these gentlemen who was the 

 cause of the allowance being cut off. A petition 

 was sent in to the Governor asking that we 

 should receive the equivalent in money for the 

 discontinuance of wine and brandy, which 

 amounted to seventeen dollars at cost price, but 

 no answer came, and we had to bear our loss 

 and offer up some nightly words in favor (or 

 otherwise) of the person who had made an 

 abuse of his allowance. 



