Homesteading 



bounders who are a disgrace to a noble profes- 

 sion, and think a lot more of dollars than duty. 

 We know they are not all like that. There is 



our own Dr. S , in M ; he'd go through a 



lot of weather to help folk that needed it, and 

 wait for his money, too." 



" But a doctor ought to be reasonably paid, 

 like any one else,'* said Harry. 



" Of course he should," said the older man, 

 " but those folks at Ottawa are too busy helping 

 the boomsters and ladling out dollars to special 

 interests to consider the proper business of gov- 

 ernment. It's funny to read in travellers' tales 

 about the immigration halls, and the care that 

 is taken of the incoming colonist, his wife, and 

 children. Why don't some of these ' Imperial 

 Limited ' travellers go into the back-block home- 

 steads with a team of bulls and see how it fares 

 with the women and children there ? " 



" Ha, ha ! " said Bob ; " ' Imperial Limited,' 

 that's a good name for some of those travellers. 

 It just hits them off. But the country is all 

 right, eh ? " 



" Oh yes, the country is all right. What I 

 say is, that with a bit more foresight this settling 

 up of what the boomsters are so fond of calling 

 the last best West might have been a much more 

 satisfactory proposition." 



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