Laborers,
However, Will Go Where Work Is Certain, Where Work Is Well Paid,
And Where The Wages To Be Earned Will Give Plenty In Return.
It
may be that work will become scarce in the States, as it has done
with those poor jewelers at Attleborough of whom we spoke, and that
food will become dear.
If this be so, laborers from the States
will no doubt find their way into Canada.
From Sherbrooke we went with the mails on a pair-horse wagon to
Magog. Cross-country mails are not interesting to the generality
of readers, but I have a professional liking for them myself. I
have spent the best part of my life in looking after, and I hope in
improving, such mails; and I always endeavor to do a stroke of work
when I come across them. I learned on this occasion that the
conveyance of mails with a pair of horses, in Canada, costs little
more than half what is paid for the same work in England with one
horse, and something less than what is paid in Ireland, also for
one horse. But in Canada the average pace is only five miles an
hour. In Ireland it is seven, and the time is accurately kept,
which does not seem to be the case in Canada. In England the pace
is eight miles an hour. In Canada and in Ireland these conveyances
carry passengers; but in England they are prohibited from doing so.
In Canada the vehicles are much better got up than they are in
England, and the horses too look better.
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