. Canada : a descriptive text book . in Eastern Ontario are good examples of how this works. All theneighbors go to the farm at which the work is to be done and help theowner. He does the same for the others, and so on it goes. Thesebees are often very jolly affairs, although much hard work is done. Thedinner in the middle of the day is quite an event. While the men workat the barn the women are busy within doors preparing a huge and cakes and a big baking of bread have been prepared of potatoes and vegetables are put on to boil and great joints ofbeef put to roast in
. Canada : a descriptive text book . in Eastern Ontario are good examples of how this works. All theneighbors go to the farm at which the work is to be done and help theowner. He does the same for the others, and so on it goes. Thesebees are often very jolly affairs, although much hard work is done. Thedinner in the middle of the day is quite an event. While the men workat the barn the women are busy within doors preparing a huge and cakes and a big baking of bread have been prepared of potatoes and vegetables are put on to boil and great joints ofbeef put to roast in the oven. Long tables are set on trestles and ladenwith substantial good things. When all is ready one of the womenblows a tin horn, and work ceases at once. Then the fun begins andthe place rings with talk and laughter. But the desire to help oneanother is best seen when trouble comes. The farmers stand by oneanother in the most loyal way, and many a helping hand is extended toany one of their number who is visited by CANADA. 23 CHAPTER IV. EDUCATION IN CANADA—COMMON SCHOOLS AND KINDER-GARTEN, HIGH SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES. OTHERMEANS OF EDUCATION. BRITONS the world over have always been believers in the value ofeducation and those in the colonies have led in the effort for itsadvancement. One of the first acts of the old Puritans aftersettling in Massachusetts was to enact that every township after theLord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shallappoint one to teach all children to write and read: and when any townshall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up agrammar school. The early British settlers in Canada had the samedesire for their children, so the country has always had a good systemof local schools. In the early days when the settlers were poor andscattered the school-master received a very small sum of money andlivedround. That is, each settler took it in turn to keep the masterat his house and so the domi
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