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80 fast, that he must struggle hard not to be stifled 

 with his OAVn superabundance. He has now got 200 

 acres of corn ana 100 acres of wheat, which latter he 

 has, indeed, had one year before! Oh, madness ! But, 

 to proceed. To get in these crops and to sow the 

 wheat, first taking away 200 acres of English coppice 

 in stalks, will, with the dungimj for the wheat, require, 

 at least, fifty good men, axid forty good horses or oxen, 

 for thirty days. Faith ! when larmer Simpleton sees 

 all this (in his dreams I mean), he will think himself 

 a farmer of the rank of Job, before Satan beset that 

 example of patience, so worthy of imitation, and so 

 seldom imitated. 



611. Well, but Simpleton must bustle to get in his 

 wheat In, indeed ! What can cover it, but the canopy 

 of heaven? A barn! It will, at txvo English icagou 

 loads of sheaves to an acre, require a barn a hundred 

 feet long, fifty feet wide, and tM enty-three feet high 

 up to the eaves ; and this barn with two proper floors, 

 will cost more than seven thousand dollars. He will 

 put it in stacks ; let him add si.\ men to his battalion 

 then. He will thrash it in the field; let hhn add ten 

 more men ! Let him, at once, send and press the Har- 

 monites into his service, and make Rapp march at 

 their head, for, never Mill he by any other means get 

 in the crop ; and, even then, if he pay fair wages, he 

 will lose by it. 



612. After the crop is in and the seed soM-n, in the 

 fall, what is to become of Simpleton's men till Corn 

 ploughing and planting time in the spring I And, then, 

 when the planting is (lone, what is to become of them 

 till harvest time 1 Is he, like Bayks, in the Rehearsal, 

 to lav thL'Ui down when he ple;).ses, and when he 

 pleases make them rise up again ? To hear you talk 

 about these crops, and, at other times to hear you ad- 

 vising others to bring labourers 'rom England, one 

 would think you, for your own part, able, like Cad- 

 mus, to make men start up out of the earth. How 

 would one ever have thought it possible for infatuation 

 like this to seize hold of a mind hke yours ! 



613. When I read in your Illinois Letters, that 

 you had prepared horses, ploughs, and other things, 



