That would pay the rent of two acres of land here; or it would buy five on the Illinois Central Railroad.

Three years' beer-money would pay for those rich prairie acres, his fare by sea and land to them, and leave him 3 pounds in his pocket to begin their cultivation with.

Three years of this saving would make almost a new man of him at home, in the way of self-respect, comfort and progress.

It would be a "nest- egg," to which hope, habit and a strengthening ambition would add others of larger size and value from year to year.
Give, then, the British agricultural laborer good, healthy Housing, Free Schooling, and let him empty the Jug into the Basket, and he may work his way up to a very comfortable condition at home.

But if he should prefer to go to Australia or America, where land is cheap and labor dear, in a few years he may save enough to take him to either continent, with sufficient left in his pocket to begin life in a new world..