oxen to it, and changed his employment from trundling a wheel-barrow to driving a team.  Onward moved the new establishment, the owner gathering as he went, from the superabundance of those who had gone before him, various articles of utility—­such as flour, provisions of all kinds, books, implements, even rich carpets, &c. which had been cast off as burdensome by other travellers.  He would occasionally find poor worn-out animals that had been left behind, and as it was not important for him to speed his course, he gathered them together, stopping where there was abundance of grass, long enough for his cattle to gain a little strength and spirit.  Time rolled on, and his wagon rolled with it, till he reached the end of his journey, when it was discovered that he had an uncommon fine team and a good wagon, &c. which produced him on the sale 2500 dollars.

’Being now relieved of the care of his team, and in the midst of the gold-diggings, he soon closed his prospecting by a location; and while all around him were concentrating their strength to consummate the work of years in a few months, he deliberately commenced building, finishing, and, as fast as he could, furnishing, a comfortable cabin.  His wood he gathered and regularly piled in a straight line and perpendicular by the door, convenient as though the old lady had been within to provide his meals.  He acted upon the adage, “Never to start till you are ready.”  Now our hero was ready to commence working his “claim;” and this he did, as he did everything else, steadily and systematically.

’He may yet be seen at his work, with the prospect—­if he lives to be an old man—­of being rich; for in the last two years he has accumulated 10,000 dollars.’

Need we add a word?  This is decidedly the kind of man for emigrating—­or, indeed, for remaining at home.  We, being of his own character, can conceive his delicious nights of camping out, his head under his wheel-barrow, until he arrived at the dignity of a wagon; his principal luggage being perhaps a coverlet, to preserve him from the cold in sleep, and a gun that unscrewed, and its appendages, to provide him a fresh bird or beef.  It is very probable that he sought neither of these, but was contented with something concentrated and preserved, and thus feasted; and with a drink from some delicious spring, or from a bottle—­that could not be broken—­supplied at the last spring he had passed, lay down conscious of his progress, well satisfied with the past, and hopeful of the future.

On his arrival at his destination, his conduct is equally exemplary.  Every one should provide for the preservation of life and health as first measures; and if not done at a rate which future exertions are likely to render profitable, why make the expenditure?  Now, many are in all these new adventures expending on inevitable necessities—­having made no previous provision for them—­such sums as render all their exertions hopeless; while at the same time they are sacrificing health and strength.