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SECTION XXII. 



Clothing House-rent Fire-wood Labour : 

 the Expcnce of each. 



A BEAVER hat costs eight dollars, or three 

 pounds currency ; an inferior hat five dol- 

 lars, or one pound seventeen shillings and 

 six pence. A pair of boots eight dollars. 

 The boots I bought lasted only six weeks 

 before they wanted scaling and calashing, 

 which cost me four dollars more. Shoes 

 cost fifteen shillings per pair ; inferior ones, 

 very bad indeed, seven shillings and six 

 pence, A pair of common trowsers and 

 jacket cost from five to six dollars. 



My tailor's bill, which I intended to 

 have inserted, is mislaid ; but the following 

 were the prices, as near as I can recollect, 

 of the several articles specified: -A top- 

 coat for a boy twelve years old, of the cloth 



