ears old, fell into bad company, and
was always to be seen at the alehouses or at the fairs, losing his time
and losing his money. The father, whose ancestors had resided for many
generations on the same spot, and had always been, as long as they could
trace back, small farmers like himself, and who was proud of only one
thing, which was that his family had been noted for honesty and upright
dealing, did all he could to reclaim him, but in vain. At last the son
was guilty of a burglary, tried, convicted, and transported for life.
The disgrace had such an effect upon the father, that he never held up
his head afterward; he was ashamed to be seen in the parish, and at last
he resolved to emigrate to a new country where what had happened would
not be known.

He accordingly sold off every thing, and came to Canada; but by the time
that he had arrived in the country, and paid all his expenses, he had
little money left, and when he heard from Mr. Emmerson the terms offered
by Mr. Campbell, he gladly accepted them. The wife, his two sons and his
daughter, who came with him, were as industrious and as respectable as
himself.

The second family, of the name of Graves, consisted of a man and his
wife, and only one son, a young man grown up; but the wife's two sisters
were with them. He had come from Buckinghamshire, and had been
accustomed to a dairy farm.

The third family was a very numerous one, with a man and his wife, of
the name of Jackson; these had been farmers and market-gardeners near
London; and had brought out some money with them: but, as I have
mentioned, they had a very large family, most of them too young to be
very useful for a few years. They had seven children: a girl of
eighteen, two boys of twelve and thirteen, then three little girls, and
a boy an infant. Jackson had money enough to purchase a farm, but being
a very prudent man, and reflecting that he might not succeed at first,
and that his large family would run away with all his means, he decided
upon accepting the terms proposed by Mr. Campbell.

The fourth and last of the emigrant families was a young couple of the
name of Meredith. The husband was the son of a farmer in Shropshire, who
had died, and divided his property between his three sons: two of them
remained upon the farm and paid the youngest brother his proportion in
money, who, being of a speculative turn, resolved to come to Canada, and
try his fortune. He married just before he came out,