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which they like, viz. riding to market iri a 

 cart, drinking whisky, and cheating you 

 out of part of the money they get for the 

 truck. He sold as many peaches for us as 

 came to seventeen pounds, at (on the ave- 

 rage) four pence per peck : there would have 

 been little profit upon them if we had hired 

 men to pull them. 



As soon as this business was over, the corn 

 began to be ready to be topped and pulled, 

 and the turnips for taking to market; so we 

 kept our black fellow to be our market-man. 

 We had turnips to get ready for market, and 

 the corn to cut, the remaining part of the day. 

 I ventured to cut it up by the roots, and 

 set it up in shocks. This process, the in- 

 habitants told me, would spoil all the corn, 

 both blades and tops; but as I wanted it 

 chiefly for the cows, I was of a different 

 opinion, which proved to be right. For, 

 having invented a machine for cutting up 

 the stalks, blades, husks, and corn, altogether, 

 it thus made most excellent feed for cows 

 and not bad for horses : but it did not 



