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allowed for his horses were much highef 

 than are usually demanded in the back 

 country, but he took them in payment for 

 liis professional attendance, and therefore 

 was compelled to buy them at his patients* 

 own price. He said he could get no money 

 as a Doctor, and therefore took produce. 

 He told me his brother was a farmer ; and 

 I asked him the produce of their crops. 

 Wheat and Indian corn were the only 

 things his brother raised : he obtained about 

 fifteen bushels of wheat per acre, and 

 about twenty-five of corn; but he could 

 not be correct in the Indian corn, it being 

 used for the horses, cattle, &c. ; he was 

 more certain with respect to the wheat, 

 as they tread it all out at one time. 

 This Doctor's apparel was an old black 

 coat and waistcoat, a large fan-tailed 

 cocked hat, with a cockade on it, (for 

 he held a commission, and said they 

 were all soldiers where he lived,) a pair 

 of old boots with many holes in them ; all 



