Feeling A Certain Security In The Smallness Of My Available Capital,
I Did Not Hesitate In Applying To Mr. Q - - To Sell Me A Farm,
Particularly As I Was Aware Of His Anxiety To Induce Me To Settle
Near C - -, For The Reasons Already Stated.
I told him that 300
pounds was the very largest sum I could give for a farm, and that,
if I could not get one for that price, I should join my friends in
the backwoods.
Q - -, after scratching his head, and considering for a few minutes,
told me that he knew a farm which he could sell me for that price,
particularly as he wished to get rid of a set of Yankee rascals who
prevented emigrants from settling in that neighbourhood. We
afterwards found that there was but too good reason for the
character he gave of some of our neighbours.
Q - - held a mortgage for 150 pounds on a farm belonging to a certain
Yankee settler, named Joe H - -, as security for a debt incurred for
goods at his store, in C - -. The idea instantly struck Q - - that he
would compel Joe H - - to sell him his farm, by threatening to
foreclose the mortgage. I drove out with Mr. Q - - next day to see
the farm in question. It was situated in a pretty retired valley,
surrounded by hills, about eight miles from C - -, and about a mile
from the great road leading to Toronto. There was an extensive
orchard upon the farm, and two log houses, and a large frame-barn.
A considerable portion of the cleared land was light and sandy; and
the uncleared part of the farm, situated on the flat, rocky summit
of a high hill, was reserved for "a sugar bush," and for supplying
fuel.
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