Chapter 11 OUR SETTLER FRIENDS.

I think I need hardly say that we are not ?sthetic here in the bush. In point of fact, we have no sympathy whatever with ?stheticism or high art culture. We are, to put it shortly, Goths, barbarians, antithetics, what you will. The country is not ?sthetic either; it is too young yet to use or abuse intellectual stimulants. There exists among us a p