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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 719, 5 March 1853, Page 3

The Man who ought not to Emigrate. —The man who cannot shave without hot water, or pull off his boots without a bootjack; the man who cannot get up without a glass of pale ale in the morning, or go to bed without a “ bashawed lobster,” or devilled bones; the man who has never carried anything heavier than his cane, or cut anything stronger than his beard; the man whose only sowing has been limited to his “ wild oats,” and* his only reaping to Eisenberg cutting twice a yea,r Ills corns; the man who has never handled any other bill but a tailor’s, and only knows what a spade is by seeing it in a pack of cards; the man whose only knowledge of “ hedging” has been derived from the race-course, and of “ harrowing” from a Victoria melodrama; the man who only cares for a horse as something to bet upon, and looks upon sheep as “ creatures from the country” that are fleeced at tcarte ; the man who imagines a bull walks on two legs like those he has seen on the Stock-Exchange, and whose skill in shooting lias been restricted to a few shots at the moon; the man who merely knows a bank and a rake from what he lias seen at a rouge-et-noir table ; the man whose footing in society lias already been upon the very best polished leather boots, and whose longest walk in life has been through the Insolvent Debtors’ Court; the man who has never known what it is to earn a dinner, or to enjoy one without French wines ; the man who would think himself degraded if he was seen carrying a a man of all others ought not to emigrate. Better far for him to lounge and 101 l on sofas, and lisp, and smoke, and yawn, in a country that can appreciate him, doing no harder work than digging occasionally in the morning papers, or in the gold districts of his mother’s pocket, than to carry those same qualities to a distant land where they would only be thrown away, like early purl before Quakers. Such a man, we repeat it ought to be the very last in England to emigrate!— Punch.