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men in Baltimore, who generally boil the 

 milk before they use it ; but it would boil 

 to whey and curds if it was not delivered 

 betimes in the morning. In winter we 

 rose at four o'clock, and were in town by 

 break of day ; and by such care and assi- 

 duity, and milking our cows regularly and 

 well, we got the best of custom, and our 

 milk became esteemed more than any other. 

 This was a very good business, compared 

 with any other thing to be done in farming 

 in America. During the whole two years 

 I seldom met with a man or woman who 

 would lend any assistance to us so early in 

 the morning; nor do I think it possible to 

 hire people to do what we did ourselves. 



My first work on the farm was to dress 

 the meadows; which were called fine; 

 though the greater part of them in Eng- 

 land would not have been thought worthy 

 of being called meadow at all, being over- 

 run with briars and weeds of different de- 

 scription. Their state indeed was such, 

 that when I mowed them, I sometimes in 

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