We have seven head of horn-cattle, five horses, ten
sheep, and six lambs, thirty-six hens, forty-four hen chickens, two
geese, and nine goslings, two pigs, and one calf, so I will say
good-bye for the present.--I remain, yours sincerely,
JOHN HENEY MITCHELL.
"P.S.--Give my love to all the boys, and accept the, same from me,
J. M."
The following incidents are told by Miss Macpherson:--
"Miss Bilbrough often goes off with half-a-dozen to see them placed
in their new home. Whilst on one of these journeys, the little ones
were attracting the notice of fellow-travellers, as some forty to
fifty are generally in a compartment. From amongst these Miss
Bilbrough is accosted by a young gentleman, who lifts his hat to her,
and sits down by her side. This was one of our first party, now a
young solicitor, just about to pass his last examination. He was on
the important business of going to some place in the backwoods to
value a farm for the firm by whom he was employed.
"Another young man, one of our second band in 1870, is now visiting
his friends in England for a month, ere beginning his career as a
lawyer in Canada; and more than this, he is, we rejoice to say, a
consistent Christian of several years' standing.
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