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are going ? Not, as in some past periods of 

 colonial history, a vicious and criminal class, 

 who " left their country for their country's 

 good," but mostly the flower of the British Isles 

 and Europe. 



Although many have been town-dwellers, they 

 or their immediate forbears are sprung from what 

 Goldsmith calls " the hardy peasantry, which 

 once destroyed can never be supplied " ; enter- 

 prising, energetic, and ambitious, and on the 

 whole too young to have had their minds cramped 

 by mere formulas. And though they may not 

 carry much capital in money, they often have 

 a good round sum, and the fact that they pay 

 their passages, and often that of a family, means 

 that, generally speaking, they are not drawn 

 from the class that lives from hand to mouth. 



*' Looks rather good for Canada, the Flag, and 

 the Empire, doesn't it ? " said Tom. 



" Been thinking imperially, eh ? " said I. 



" Rather," said he. 



"That's all right," I replied, "but you 

 know there are different ways of doing that ; 

 and don't you think that sometimes nations 

 are apt to wave their respective flags a bit 

 too much ? Take, for instance, ourselves, 

 the United States, and Canada. Now, for my 

 part, I love to think of them as the mother, 



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