buy one hundred and four cakes for fifteen 

 shillings, the cakes weighing two pounds 

 each : thus this was cheap compared with 

 other food ; and the cakes are very good in 

 quality, not being so much, pressed as they 

 are in England, but they do not keep so 

 well. My expectations so far were fully 

 answered. But I found great trouble in 

 this business ; for in the two years that I 

 followed it I could never meet with any 

 servant that would milk properly, therefore 

 we were obliged to milk the cows and sell 

 the milk ourselves, as well as feed the cows 

 and do greatest part of the farming work. 



The custom in the towns is, to rise very 

 early ; the weather being so hot in summer 

 that the morning is the only time when one 

 can draw breath with pleasure. We were 

 thus compelled in summer to rise at two 

 o'clock to milk, and to be in town before 

 the sun was up ; otherwise we should find 

 the breakfast overand the milk would 

 frequently be sour by twelve o'clock in the 

 day. There were also a number of French- 



