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of fourteen days, however, he informed me 

 that it was necessary for him to receive his 

 money from the customers weekly : for his 

 trade increasing, it prevented him from sell- 

 ing so much milk as he might do ; saying, 

 once a-week he could return round during 

 the day and collect the money. I readily 

 agreed to this ; but when we came to settle 

 in fourteen days afterwards, he was nine 

 pounds in my debt, and unable to give me 

 any account of this deficiency: having seen 

 him continually drunk, I easily guessed 

 what had become of the money ; which, 

 however, he honestly worked out. By 

 this time the black fellow and the Irishman 

 nearly killed one of my horses, which had 

 almost frustrated this project of selling milk; 

 but knowing that nothing else would answer, 

 I put my youngest son to this employment, 

 and he performed it wonderfully well. The 

 cows now increased so much in their milk, 

 by eating cakes, that we had more than he 

 could easily sell ; therefore, my other son 

 joined his brother. I bought two sulkies, and 

 fixed the milk-churns behind : and then we 



