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this very few of them have learned to do, and others 

 with a bad grace. The lucre is stuck away in old 

 stockings or puncheon chests until opportunity offers to 

 buy more land which is the chief object of their de- 

 sires. In their houses, in the country especially, they 

 live thriftily, often badly. There is wanting among 

 them the simple unaffected neatness of the English 

 settlers, who make it a point, as far as they are able, 

 to live seemly, in a well-furnished house, in every way 

 as comports with the gentleman. The economy of the 

 German farmer in Pensylvania is precisely the same as 

 that customary in Germany even when his next neigh- 

 bor every day sets him a better example. A great 

 four-cornered stove, a table in the corner with benches 

 fastened to the wall, everything daubed with red, and 

 above, a shelf with the universal German farmer's 

 library : the Almanack, and Song-book, a small ' Garden 

 of Paradise/ Habermann, + and the Bible. It is in vain 

 to look for other books, whereas in the cabins of the 

 English there are not seldom seen, at the least, frag- 

 ments of the Spectator, journals, magazines, or dic- 

 tionaries. The highest delight of the German country- 

 man in Pensylvania is drink. He drives many miles 

 to Philadelphia to market, sleeping in his wagon, living 

 on the bread and cheese he takes along, but having 

 made a good sale, he is certain to turn in at some grog- 

 shop on his way home drinks in good spirits a glass 

 of wine, drinks perhaps a second, and a third, recks 

 no more and often leaves his entire wallet at the bung. 

 They give their children little education and have 

 no fancy for seeing their sons parading in the pulpit 

 or the Court-house. Not until this last war, (when 

 several regiments were raised among the Pensylvania 



