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Excerpt from “To the Parents and Guardians” chapter from: |
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Thomas Hughes, Rugby Tennessee Being Some Account of the Settlement Founded on the Cumberland Plateau by the Board of Aid to Land Ownership, Limited |
| To give the young settler a fair chance of finding his legs, and trying what he is best fitted for before he takes any line for himself, we provide him barrack room at a cheap rate, and have arranged that all the work on our unsold lands—in gardening, planting, clearing, cultivating—shall be done by such settlers as care to undertake it, by piece work, paid for by us at the rate current in the neighbourhood. And, lastly, whenever he is ready to buy land on his own account, he can get the fullest information as to price and quality, not only of our lands—to which we make |
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| not the slightest attempt to limit him—but of all land on sale in the district, so far as our information goes. |
| And there we leave him. If with this help he cannot fall in with the life about him, keep himself well by his own work, and make himself an acceptable member of the new society, he is not the sort of person required for this experiment. To those who have gone with us so far, who think such an effort needed, and valuable, and care to see how this particular experiment seems likely to answer, the rest of these pages are dedicated. |
