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I shall have all that newly broken virgin seed-bed, 

 and although expenses will be a long way outside 

 the value of the crop, I can draw on my other 

 enterprise to meet the difference, and that at any 

 rate is a commercial success." 



" You want eight good horses and two good men 

 to get this place into anything approaching successful 

 commercial enterprise," he insisted. " However, I 

 must move on east to see what prospect Canada 

 holds out for a brewery. It should be good con- 

 sidering one pays a shilling here for a bottle of 

 stout that is sold for twopence in Ireland." 



On September 12 he left, and was obviously not 

 sorry to go, although kind if a little inclined to be 

 angry about what he no doubt considered to be my 

 obstinate determination to pull through. If he 

 worked as a martyr all the time, at least his work 

 was stamped with that quality of excellence with 

 which genuine martyrs sign their work ; and the 

 fact is I wasn't in the mood to be generous to men 

 just then. Always at the back of my mind had been 

 the belief that they had a genuine title to the 

 splendid term which has come to be a byword, 

 " lord of creation." To make life possible one 

 drank at the fountain of the thought of men, not 

 women ; but through the shoulder-to-shoulder rub 

 of everyday working-life in Canada it grew clear 

 that although more giants had issued from the male 

 division, within the crowd men have hoisted their 

 pretension to superior power not on the rock of 

 superior work, but on the sands of superior wages — 

 the misappropriation and unfair division of money. 

 Had my brother been a little more sympathetic 

 about the fact that I had to wash towels which were 



