Better still to lie on the verandah, tired in body, tranquil in mind, when the snows are fading and your work is done, knowing that every redwood hewn and new plough-furrow driven has been so much added to the prosperity of this province and the Dominion.

It isn't a bad life--this one you were meant for, Harry." "No," said Alton slowly.

"There are times when I'm a very thankful man." "Well, there is another one, and I have seen very tired men playing at being amused by the trifles that sickened them.

They had, however, kept up the game so long that the manhood they were once proud of was only a memory.

There are a good many of them in the old country, and some of them have sacrificed all they had for the one thing that wasn't good for them.