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then begun to sell milk ; but he being 

 totally unaccustomed to cows, I knew that 

 would not answer his end. He had agreed 

 with an Englishman that had been sent 

 over by Mr. Bullock,with Punch, the famous 

 race-horse bought by the Prince of Wales of 

 Lord Egremont — (race-horsemen are sel- 

 dom proper to manage cows!) — to do the 

 business of the farm, milk the cows* and sell 

 the milk, &c. on condition of allowing him 

 half of what the milk sold for. I have seen 

 him since, and he told me this was not likely 

 to answer : the man had got in his debt, 

 and was endeavouring to cheat him. Mr. 

 Mills said, " his son Jack was such a 

 proud fool that he would not go back to 

 England; or else he was himself determined 

 to go to the country where he knew how to 

 get money and keep it ; but in America he 

 could do neither — for (said he) how was 

 it possible to get money when there was 

 none r 



Having spent two days with Mr. Mills, 

 I got a place in the coach, and returned to 

 Orange-Hill. 



