CHAPTER XIX.

City and country life compared--No aristocracy in Canada--Long winter evenings--Social evenings--The bashful swain--Popular literature of the day--A comfortable winter day at home--Young farmers who have inherited property--Difficulty of obtaining female help--Farmers trying town life--Universality of the love of country life--Bismarck--Theocritus --Cato--Hesiod--Homer--Changes in town values--A speculation in lard 227