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grow rich by his business, any more than 

 the grower. Then we come to the calcu- 

 lation of my profit at four pence per peck, 

 which is the best arrd greatest price. Could 

 the scheme be put in execution, it will, 

 generally speaking, require two men and 

 one horse and cart each day, to pick thirty 

 pecks and carry them to market ; and thirty 

 pecks are more than any white man can sell 

 one day with another. A black man is 

 much better for this business than a white 

 man; although they are in general ignorant, 

 they are impudent : thirty pecks of peaches, 

 at four pence per peck, is just ten shillings 

 per day for peaches ; and the two men's 

 wages are worth, at that season of the year, 

 one dollar per day each, and one pint of 

 whiskey, which will be sixteen shillings for 

 the men : the cart and horse are worth one 

 dollar and a half per day ; but you could 

 not hire it for less than two dollars. Now 

 the expences on this business are one pound 

 seven shillings and three pence per day, 

 and the produce is ten shillings, But as 



