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LAST YEARS IN ENGLAND. [Chap. VI. 



the time when they are wishful to be taught, and may remember 

 the lessons through life." It was a comfort that he and his 

 " careful and prudent wife " had so few wants that they could 

 indulge in this " luxury " ! The three months mounted up to 

 six, devoted in various ways to the poor ; and in the subscrip- 

 tion list of the United Kingdom Alliance for that year, we 

 find " Dr. P. P. Carpenter * in lieu of distressed operative 

 members/ ^10 ioj\" On giving up the superintendence of 

 the Rusholme Road School, May 11, he was able to report 

 that after some time he reduced it to good order, and began a 

 system of regular teaching, chiefly in singing, geography, and 

 arithmetic, and a short course of lectures on Natural History, 

 etc., with magic-lantern illustrations. Feeling the extreme 

 evils of idleness, he had also set on foot classes for tailoring, 

 shoemending, and bookbinding — the latter he himself taught. 



A Manchester Canadian Emigration Association was formed 

 by 654 unemployed operatives, who contributed twopence a 

 week from their small relief-grant to send over their members 

 to Canada, as funds served ; and Philip became one of the 

 secretaries of a Society to help their object. This involved a 

 great deal of trouble in making preparations for their reception 

 in Canada, and in raising the necessary funds and taking care 

 that they were given to those who were most likely to succeed 

 there. The circular states that six men were being sent from 

 neighbouring towns, " with money kindly provided by friends 

 in the south of England : " his sister Mary raised him about 

 ^40, including the proceeds from the sale of drawings, which 

 she had made to promote this object. 



In the summer, Philip moved to Lower Walton, near War- 

 rington. He wanted to be near the Museum ; but he found 

 that the air of the town did not agree with him. It was a 

 primitive little house in the fields, with a productive garden 

 which they much enjoyed : they called it Lark Cottage. He 

 wrote to Mary (June 28, 1863): "This day fortnight, I went 

 in by afternoon train to Manchester, to speak in Stevenson 

 Square, on ' Fugitive Slaves and Fugitive Yankees in Canada : 

 a Lesson for the Times : ' of course to show the workings of self- 



