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as they sold their own, were not liable to 

 be cheated. Indeed, I never saw four such 

 industrious people before, all sober, and 

 leading a much superior life for industry to 

 most of the people of that or any other 

 country I ever was in. They spun and 

 knitted their own stockings : this I parti- 

 cularly know, because they bought the 

 wool of me. They lived only two miles 

 and a half from the city of Baltimore. 

 They had been twenty years and upwards 

 in America, and had brought with them 

 money sufficient to buy a waggon and 

 horses, with which the man set up as carman 

 in Baltimore ; and all they were able to 

 accomplish besides, since their first settling 

 there, was the purchasing those forty acres 

 of land on which they resided, in a small 

 house, with a very indifferent stable, and 

 no barn or cow-house. They frequently 

 had nothing in the house to drink but 

 water ; which I knew from this circum- 

 stance, that, when they had a bottle of 



