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accordingly parted with it for 900 dollars, which 

 was considered the full value of it. In the 

 course of three years his neighbour determined 

 on selling the whole of his property, and of- 

 fered back this field to Donald, but now at the 

 price of 3000 dollars ; this he at once agreed 

 to give ; a bargain was struck accordingly, and 

 the first crop of wheat yielded the purchase 

 money. 



Donald's whole establishment smacks strong- 

 ly of the Highlander. His domestic arrange- 

 ments include none of the delicacies and but 

 a sparing allowance of the comforts of life ; in 

 short, he appears to be as much a scorner of 

 luxury as his stalwart countryman of old who 

 indignantly kicked away the snow-ball which, 

 in their bivouac, his too effeminate son had 

 prepared for his pillow. 



In his farming economy he has improved 

 nothing on what he found to be the practice 

 of the country : one large barn receives his 

 crops and accommodates his horses and cattle, 

 and like others he burns his straw and ploughs 

 in his clover for manure ; yet Donald has 



