I hope this will be a
warning to them, and that they will take to hard work as a means of
making their way in the world.
* * * * *
THE MAN WHO "STUCK TO IT."
Lord Strathcona began life as a poor boy in Scotland and he ended up
by being one of the richest men in Britain, and, not only the richest
in money, but in having also the admiration and affection of a vast
number of his fellow-countrymen.
When he was eighteen, as plain Donald Smith, he went out to Canada and
joined the Hudson Bay Trading Company there. This Company used to buy
fur skins from the trappers and Indians, and their trading stations
were built in far-off, out-of-the-way places in order to be near to
the hunting-grounds of these people.
Also, as you never could trust the Red Indians, they were all
fortified posts, ready for defence against attack.
Young Smith was sent up to a place called Mingan, right away up in the
north-east of Canada, in Labrador, a cold, bleak, dreary country.
After he had been there some time, his eyes began to give him great
trouble, and he feared he was going blind.
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