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refuse the others as a man would. I found 

 this plan would not answer ; and the con- 

 sequence was, that, after every trial and 

 exertion, they rotted on the ground. Now 

 my farm was so situated that the great 

 road through the heart of the country went 

 through it, five or six stager-coaches, and 

 great numbers of other carriages of all kinds. 

 In all probability some of my own country- 

 men as merchants (for there begin to be 

 many of these gentlemen to settle their ac- 

 counts with the American merchants, and I 

 suppose they will increase) seeing this waste 

 committed, would, on returning to England, 

 relate their story in this way That when 

 at the tavern at Baltimore on the same day, 

 the fruit-people were asking eleven pence a*- 

 piece for peaches. An Englishman says to 

 himself, " What idle fcols those Americans 

 are ! and I think all the English, when they 

 get to America, are as bad : but, when I get 

 there, I- will set them the example." But 

 when there, he finds himself much disap- 

 pointed, and does net know how it is that 



