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make the implements a matter of very little note. 

 Where horses are kept, the shoeing of them is the 

 most serious kind of expense. 



324. The first business of a farmer is, here, and 

 ought to be every where, to live tcell : to live in ease 

 and plenty ; to " keep hospitality," as the old English 

 saying was. To save money is a secondary considera- 

 tion ; but, any English farmer, who is a good farmer 

 there, may, if he will bring his industry and care with 

 him, and be sure to leave his pride and insolence 

 (if he have any) along with his anxiety, behind him, 

 live in ease and plenty here, and keep hospitality, and 

 save a great parcel of money too. If he have the Jack- 

 Daw taste for heaping little round things together in a 

 hole, or chest, he may follow his taste. I have often 

 thought of my good neighbour, John Gater, who, if 

 he were here, with his pretty clipped hedges, his gar- 

 den-looking fields, and his neat homesteads, would have 

 visitors from far and near; and, while every one would 

 admire and praise, no soul would envy him his pos^ 

 sessions. Mr. Gateb would soon have all these things. 

 The hedges only want planting ; and he would feel .so 

 comfortably to know that the Botley Parson could 

 never again poke his nose into his sheep-fold or his 

 pig-stye. However, let me hope, rather, that the 

 destruction of the Borough-tyrann}, will soon make 

 England a country fit for an honest and industrious 

 man to live in. Let me hope, that a relief from grind- 

 ing taxation will soon relieve men of their fears of 

 dying in poverty, and will, thereby, restore to England 

 the " hospitality" for which she was once famed, but 

 which now really exists no where but in America. 



