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I may add that by dint of superhuman exer- 

 tions on my part the onion order was filled ; 

 also that manual labour was pointedly omitted 

 from the health programme furnished me. 

 It is well, however, that the person seeking 

 a home in the Far West, either for health or 

 other profit, should understand beforehand 

 that it is without avail that he omits manual 

 labour from his programme ; this is the rock 

 on which many invalids either go to pieces 

 or meet with disappointment. A delicate 

 person, unaccustomed to the combination of 

 physical toil and the mental harassment in- 

 separable from inefficient co-operation, is 

 bound, in the nature of things, to make 

 slower progress towards health than one 

 whose conditions of life have always included 

 manual labour. This is a point too often 

 overlooked by physicians who hurry their 

 patients from comfortable homes to shoulder 

 the burden of existence in the Far West. 

 When added to this is a natural love of 

 work in the patient, further encouraged by a 

 stimulating climate, it is easy to understand 

 how at the end of a year or two the 

 medical reproof may be, 'You have gone 



