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To begin with, several of them are sure to get hold of liquor and make attacks upon the settlers, in which case some of them, anyhow, are sure to get killed. In the next place, most of them were brought up as thieves in the slums of London, and will have no more idea of roughing it in a country like this than of behaving themselves if they were transported to a London drawing room.
I lived all my life on a farm in Iowa, till I went up to get a job in Chicago after my father died and I was all alone in the world. We lived in the very wildest part of the State in the part they call the 'Big Woods. Oh, I know all about frontier life. And there's hardly any kind of 'roughing it' that I haven't done. I was born to it."
"I see you don't mind roughing it," said Mr. Fitch. "No; that's the best part of it." "Well, you may go home now and make preparations. To-morrow morning come to the office for instructions and money. One thing only I suggest now take as little baggage as possible. It would only be in your way." "All right, sir. I've got a small knapsack that will hold all I want to carry." "Good!
This was Easton's twenty-second birthday and it occurred to me that it would be a pleasant variation to give a birthday dinner in his honor and to have a sort of feast to relieve the monotony of our daily life, and give the men something to think about and revive their spirits; for "bucking the trail" day after day with no change but the gradual change of scenery does grow monotonous to most men, and the ardor of the best of them, especially men unaccustomed to roughing it, will become damped in time unless some variety, no matter how slight, can be brought into their lives.
'Unless one wants Paradise, sighed Margery, 'who wouldn't be contented with dear Camp Chaparral? 'Who would live in a house, any way? exclaimed Philip. 'Sniff this air, and look up at that sky! 'And this is what they call "roughing it," in Santa Barbara, quoth Dr. Winship. 'Why, you youngsters have made that tent fit for the occupancy of a society belle.
'Humph! You had better come in here, Gride. My man's out, and the sun is hot upon my room. This is cool and in the shade, if you don't mind roughing it. 'Not at all, Mr Nickleby, oh not at all! All places are alike to me, sir. Ah! very nice indeed. Oh! very nice!
One not informed of the progress of American life might have been surprised to see that the fad is to be American, with a sort of patronage of things and ways foreign, especially of things British, a large continental kind of attitude, begotten of hearing much about Western roughing it, of Alaska, of horse-breeding and fruit-raising on the Pacific, of the Colorado River Canon.
This is quite like home. Three years I have been roughing it, up hill and down dale, camp and field Seen a little bit o'fightin' on the Burmah side 'long of your British troops. Mr. Armstrong; better boys I do not want to meet And here's to them and you, sir. But, Lord! he caressed his tumbler with a lean brown hand, and looked contemplatively into space 'I must smoke.
He ate his scant meals, and otherwise took care of the functions of his weak human nature, when and where he could, without grumbling, and at times earned even the praise of his driver by his ability to "rough it." Which "roughing it," by the way, meant the ability of the passengers to accept the incompetency of the Company.
I have written what I consider to be the truth, and as such I hope it may do good, by preparing the minds of emigrants for what they will really find, rather than by holding out fallacious hopes that can never be realized. In "Roughing it in the Bush," I gave an honest personal statement of facts.
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