necessary."

About three weeks after this conversation the _bateaux_ arrived with the
engineer and machinery for the flour and saw-mills: and now the
settlement again presented a lively scene, being thronged with the
soldiers who were sent from the fort. The engineer was a very pleasant,
intelligent young Englishman, who had taken up his profession in Canada,
and was considered one of the most able in the colony. The site of the
mill was soon chosen, and now the axes again resounded in the woods, as
the trees were felled and squared under his directions. Alfred was
constantly with the engineer, superintending the labour of the men, and
contracted a great intimacy with him; indeed, that gentleman was soon on
such a footing with the whole family as to be considered almost as one
of them, for he was very amusing, very well-bred, and had evidently
received every advantage of education.

Mr Campbell found that Mr Emmerson, for such was his name, could give
him every particular relative to the emigrants who had come out, as he
was so constantly travelling about the country, and was in such constant
communication with them.

"You are very fortunate in your purchase," said he to Mr Campbell, "the
land is excellent, and you have a good water-power in the stream, as
well as convenient carriage by the lake. Fifty years hence this
property will be worth a large sum of money."

"I want very much to get some more emigrants to settle here," observed
Mr Campbell. "It would add to our security and comfort, and I have not
sufficient hands to cultivate the land which has been cleared by the
fire of last autumn. If not cultivated in a short time, it will be all
forest again."

"At present it is all raspberries, and very good ones too, are they not,
Mr Emmerson?" said Emma.

"Yes, miss, most excellent," replied he; "but you are aware that,
whenever you cut down trees here, and do not hoe the ground to sow it,
raspberry bushes grow up immediately."

"Indeed, I was not aware of it."

"Such is the case, nevertheless. After the raspberries, the seedling
hardwood trees spring up, and, as Mr Campbell says, they soon grow into
a forest again.

"I do not think that you would have much trouble in getting emigrants to
come here, Mr Campbell, but the difficulty will be in persuading them
to remain. Their object in coming out to this country is to obtain land
of their own, and become independent. Many of them have not the means
to