Perils, pastimes, and pleasures of an emigrant in Australia, Vancouver's Island and California.

Date:
1849
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Credit: Perils, pastimes, and pleasures of an emigrant in Australia, Vancouver's Island and California. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to be of any service to tliemselves, or to others in the character of Emigrants. If a clerk, a shopman, or a weaver, was to go into the country and ask a farmer for employ¬ ment, he would no doubt be laughed at by all the clowns who might overhear such an out-of- the-way application. But if you were suddenly to transplant one of those clowns, and one of the aforesaid non-descripts, as they may be termed in an agricultural sense, into the Bush, their respective chances of proving valuable labourers would be all in favour of the latter. In fact, the clerk, the shopman, or the weaver, would, if he possessed an ordinary share of ingenuity and pluck, became a tolerably good herdsman, or shepherd, in the Bush, before Hodge had got rid of half of the old-world notions, which he must unlearn before he could make himself worth the salt to his ])orridge. All that the clerk, for instance, has to make up his mind to is precisely that which I have said the capitalist himself must do—namely, to dis-
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