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benefit from it either year : the only differ- 

 ence was, that those which had plaster were 

 later fit to pluck. I tried French plaster 

 and Nova-Scotia plaster on the turnips, but 

 could see no difference : both were equally 

 good. This being August, and the time of 

 mowing the timothy, I let eleven acres to 

 two Dutch men, at one dollar and a quarter 

 per acre, and eleven pints of whiskey. I 

 expected it to have been mown in five days; 

 but it was twenty-one days before they 

 finished it. I mention this circumstance 

 only as shewing how unpleasant it is to have 

 business to do in such a country. The 

 second day they were mowing, one man 

 mowed very ill: I mentioned it to him: he 

 threw down his hat and scythe, stamped 

 upon his hat, d d me and all English- 

 men, and went his way: and the other 

 man, - although he was a neat mower, 

 never missed a day, and frequently lay in the 

 meadow at night under a tree, was twen- 

 ty-one days before he had finished. 



It being now September, it was time to 



