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the fire. Everyone in the country went through such experiences 

 as this and none escaped. 



One thing was creditable to the settlers, they were all willing 

 to help each other and "Bees" were the regular ways of helping a 

 farmer who was in distress or who wanted help for a big under- 

 taking. We were just as ready to go out and cut a man's grain or 

 plow his land as we were to go and help him erect a home or a 

 big frame barn. All worked and all helped. The slogan of the 

 country was "Root hog or die!" 



These early settlers made Canada! I do not remember an 

 idle man; all worked and although the pay was poor and the 

 returns very often scarcely anything, I do not remember a dis- 

 satisfied man. 



