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CASES OF EMIGRANTS. 
enough to ascribe to me. I have ever made it 
a rule not to exceed my income. Mrs. * * * 
* * * bore our first trials with so much cheer- 
fulness, and contributed so much to my happi- 
ness and my prosperity, that I felt myself bound 
to build her a good house with the first money 
I had to spare.” I confess this answer raised my 
host in my estimation, and it was a gratifying 
proof to me of the success that attends industry 
and perseverance. 
But let us look at another case. Mr. * * * fiad 
a property to the N. W. of Sydney, and having 
considerable funded means when he arrived in 
the colony, he soon put his property into a state of 
progressive improvement, and being in truth an 
excellentpractical farmer, it assumed the appear- 
ance of regularity and order. Had Mr. * * * stop- 
ped at this moment, hewould have been in the en- 
joymentof affluence and of every rational comfort. 
But instead of exercising prudent rules of hospi- 
tality, he gave way to the natural generosity of 
his disposition, entered into expences he could 
not afford, and was ultimately obliged to part 
with his estate. Now it is deeply to be regretted, 
that one whose energies and abilities particularly 
fitted him for the life he had chosen, should have 
