of a few dollars would gladly render
me all the assistance I require."

"You must not trust to such contingencies."

"But, husband dear, consider the great additional expense," she said,
coaxingly.

"Nonsense!--that is my affair."

"I should like to have my own way in this matter," said Flora, leaning
her hand upon his shoulder, and trying to win him into compliance by
sundry little caresses. "I know, John, that I am in the right."

"And those who love you, Flora, and wish to spare you fatigue and
discomfort, are in the wrong. Is it not so?"

This last speech silenced his wife, but did not convince her that she
was wrong. Flora, as my readers must long ago have discovered, was no
heroine of romance, but a veritable human creature, subject to all the
faults and weaknesses incidental to her sex. She wished to have her own
way, and was ready to cry that she could not get it. Yet, had her advice
been acted upon, she would have been spared a great deal of sorrow and
mortification, which greatly embittered the first months of her sojourn
in a foreign land.

Persons emigrating to Canada cannot be guilty of a greater blunder than
that of taking out servants with them, which is sure to end in loss and
disappointment; for they no sooner set foot upon the North American
shores, than they suddenly become possessed with an _ultra republican_
spirit. The chrysalis has burst its dingy shell; they are no longer
caterpillars, but gay butterflies, prepared to bask in the sun-blaze of
popular rights. Ask such a domestic to blacken your shoes, clean a
knife, or fetch a pail of water from the well at the door, and ten to
one she will turn upon you as fierce as a lioness, and bid you do it
yourself. If you are so imprudent as to insist on being obeyed, she will
tell you to hire another in her place; she is sure of twenty situations
as good as yours, to-morrow.

She is right in her assertion. Her insolent rejection of your commands
would not stand at all in her way of procuring a new place. And although
cleaning a lady's shoes, and bringing in a pail of water, or an armful
of wood, is by no means such disgusting employment as scouring greasy
pots and scrubbing the floors, she has been told that the former is
degrading work not fit for a woman, and she is now in a free country,
and will not submit to degradation.

The mistress, who in England was termed the _dear lady_, now degenerates
into the _woman_, while persons in their own cl