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from stoues, he was determined always to plow among the logs. 

 He prepares his rails for a fence of as many varieties in length as the 

 number of logs out of which they are split, and they are laid up at ran- 

 dom, with panels from 4 to 10 rails high, just as a careless man hap- 

 pened to scatter them along the line of the lot, and most assuredly the 

 fence is laid in as many directions as there are points of compass. His 

 stumps are never sprouted, and the fields he first pretended to clear can 

 only be used for a pasture, and look more like what is commonly called 

 brush land than they do like a white man's improvements. Wherever 

 he plows the stumps and grass occupy the land upon shares, so that the 

 passer-by can hardly tell whether the ground is meadow or plow-land ; 

 he never raises more than half a crop and seldom saves half he raises ; 

 his horses, cattle, sheep, and swine, are all of an inferior kind — diminu- 

 tive in size, half kept, and for the expense in raising them, Unthrifty is 

 never more than half rewarded. The wheat which Unthrifty sows — 

 for he always has to buy his seed — is of the foulest kind, such as he 

 can buy the cheapest; and his com is so mixed it is impossible to teH 

 to what genus it belongs. Unthrifty has always labored hard, has had 

 an industrious, saving and prudent wife, but is at this time a bankrupt 

 for thousands ; he is always talking about his bad luck — his misfor- 

 tunes, and would doubtless be offended if you should tell him he was 

 the author of the whole. I know another man who settled in this coun- 

 ty some 1 5 years ago, with a capital of one quai'ter section of land, of 

 a soil no better than that of Unthrifty's. In that brief period, Thrifty, 

 for so I will call his name — has cleared and fenced into beautiful fields, 

 more than 100 acres of land; he has a fine orchard, a good dwelling 

 house, good barns and barn-yards, good fences, and he always raises 

 good crops; has a place for everything and everything in its place ; huns 

 added farm to his farm — owes no man anything, and has money at in- 

 terest Nor is this all; his horses, cattle, sheep, and swine, are all of 

 the improved kinds ; and all his farming utensils are proof of one impor- 

 tant fact, that this man is well posted up in regard to every impor- 

 tant improvement pertaining to his calling, and that he has expen- 

 ded much to avail himself of these blessings. This comparison of 

 Thrifty and Unthifty might be extended into every department of Agri- 

 cultural, Mechanical, and Manufactural employment, but the task I leave 

 for my hearers. 



