XL] CONCLUSION, 



saw me stripped by the government, to affect to 

 believe, and to endeavour to make others beHeve, 

 that I had been ruined by my foolish farming^ 

 which tliey used to call my " FARMING 

 CROCHETS:" if there be any of these brutes 

 of unprovoked malignity with throats yet uncut, 

 I do wish, that a full ear of my Corn were cram- 

 med, whole, down each of those uncut throats: 

 or, which would be about the same thing to them, 

 I wish that the brutes could be prevented from 

 planting the corn! That would be the appro- 

 priate punishment ! 



203. In conclusion, my friends, let me say once 

 more, that the greater share of the merit of this 

 enterprise belongs, as I before said, to my eldest 

 SON : and I cannot take my leave of the interest- 

 ing subject in any way more congenial with my 

 own feelings, and, I trust, pleasing to you, than 

 by inserting here the letter from him, to the 

 King's gardener, accompanying the Master-plant, 

 mentioned in a former part of this book. 



Kensington, 8th November, 1828. 

 SIR, 



Along with this note, I have the honour to send 

 you a corn plant, which I have taken from my 

 father*6 field at Barn Elm. It has six full ears 

 of corn ; and, you will see, that (it was by acci- 

 dent) one was broken off. If it had still had seven^ 



