ooking at them in their backwoods prosperity would pooh-pooh the idea
as being utterly preposterous!

However this may be, it is quite certain that they are curiously well
acquainted with the slums of London and with low life in that great
city. These people sometimes mention the name of Giles Scott, and
always with regret that that stalwart policeman and his not less
stalwart sons are unable to see their way to emigrate, but if they did,
as Bobby Frog the second asks, "what would become of London?"

"They'd make such splendid backwoodsmen," says one.

"And the daughters would make such splendid wives for backwoodsmen,"
says another.

Mr Merryboy thinks that Canada can produce splendid men of its own
without importing them from England, and Mrs Merryboy holds that the
same may be said in regard to the women of Canada, and old granny, who
is still alive, with a face like a shrivelled-up potato, blinks with
undimmed eyes, and nods her snow-white head, and beams her brightest
smile in thorough approval of these sentiments.

Ah, reader! Brandon Settlement is a wonderful place, but we may not
linger over it now. The shadows of our tale have lengthened out, and
the sun is about to set. Before it goes quite down let us remind you
that the Diamonds which you have seen dug out, cut, and polished, are
only a few of the precious gems that lie hidden in the dust of the great
cities of our land; that the harvest might be very great, and that the
labourers at the present time are comparatively few.

THE END.

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