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affairs very judiciously. Little talking. Orders plainly given 

 in few words, and in a decided tone. This is their only secret. 



323. The cattle and implements used in husbandry are cheaper 

 than in England ; that is to say, lower priced. The wear and tear 

 not nearly half so much as upon a farm in England of the same 

 size. The climate, the soil, the gentleness and docility of the 

 horses and oxen, the lightness of the waggons and carts, the 

 lightness and toughness of the ivood of which husbandry imple 

 ments are made, the simplicity of the harness, and, above all, the 

 ingenuity and handiness of the workmen in repairing, and in 

 making shift : all these make the implements a matter of very 

 little note. Where horses are kept, the shoing of them is the most 

 serious kind of expence. 



324. The first business of a farmer is, here, and ought to be 

 every where, to live zvell ; to live in ease and plenty ; to &quot; keep 

 hospitality,&quot; as the old English saying was. To save money is a 

 secondary consideration ; but, any English farmer, who is a good 

 farmer there, may, if he will bring his industry and care with 

 him, and be sure to leave his pride and insolence (if he have any) 

 along with his anxiety, behind him, live in ease and plenty here, 

 and keep hospitality, and save a great parcel of money too. If 

 he have the jack-Daw taste for heaping little round things to 

 gether in a hole, or chest, he may follow his taste. I have often 

 thought of my good neighbour, JOHN GATER, who, if he were here, 

 with his pretty clipped hedges, his garden -looking fields, and his 

 neat homesteads, would have visitors from far and near ; and, 

 while every one would admire and praise, no soul would envy him 

 his possessions. Mr. GATER would soon have all these things. 

 The hedges only want planting ; and he would feel so com 

 fortably to know that the Botley Parson could never again poke 

 his nose into his sheepfold or his pig-stye. However, let me 

 hope, rather, that the destruction of the Borough-tyranny, will! 

 soon make England a country, fit for an honest and industrious! 

 man to live in. Let me hope, that a relief from grinding taxation \ 

 will soon relieve men of their fears of dying in poverty, and will, 

 thereby, restore to England the &quot; hospitality,&quot; for which she was 

 once famed, but which now really exists no where but in America. 



