Everybody knows that the Empire has -been built up on_ the labours of younger sons, They got out of the Motherland because, being younger sons, there was no particular place for them there, and they would have had to work for their living, which is " most uncomfortable thing to do in England unless you are an. eldest son, and in some families, those, curiously enough, which often produced the best-colonists, is considered mean, poor, spirited and low. - Therefore they went where there was no one to séc-them working. They did not go to Continental countries because that would have added to the nuisance of having to work the bore of having to learn the lan-fo to a place where the natives It was much simpler to
would be so obliging as to learn theirs. Paes Arrived at their destination, their first care would naturally be to get.a roof over their heads and a place for cooking.. These two requirements would suggest two immediate thoughts: first that native architecture and native cookery might be improved upon; secondly, that it was most uncomfortable to have to do one's own cooking and cleaning and -that native -labour was oth' cheap: and teachable. (The processes of transition' to the
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