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but having our Indian corn and the buck- 

 wheat to get -in, the turnips to send to mar- 

 ket, and the fruit of a large apple-orchard to 

 pick, &c. we were glad to keep them, bad 

 as they were. I hired a man and his son, and 

 their team of horses ; and with my own 

 waggon and horses we got our Indian corn 

 harvested, buck-wheat in, apples picked, &c. 

 We manured the buck-wheat land, and sow- 

 ed it with rye ; and tried plaster of Paris t6 

 dust it with (as lime) when wet, before sow- 

 ing, but to no effect. 



About this time I bought sixteen cows : 

 thinking our black fellow would do very 

 well for selling the milk ; as we could mea- 

 sure it, and he then could not cheat us. 

 But in this I was very much disappointed : 

 for he had so many tricks in mixing water 

 with the milk, &c. that I was obliged to 

 discharge him from that employment. 

 I then- put the Irishman to sell the milk : 

 and he did this very well for fourteen 

 clays ; for having been a watchman in the 

 city, he knew every street, and house in it, 

 and proved a very useful fellow. At the end 



