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to him a capital price, the more so if it should be 

 paid in cash. 



The lucky young man who bought it had been 

 for six years a careful saver of his earnings, and 

 had $800 in hand. He had concluded to marry and 

 get a farm. His intended wife, also brought up in 

 the country, had saved $200. The union of these 

 two little capitals thus gave him the very start in 

 life he was seeking. But his excellent character 

 was good for another thousand, whenever he chose 

 to borrow. Buying such a property at such a price, 

 and occupying and working it himself, must have 

 laid for him the foundation of a certain independ 

 ence. This incident forcibly illustrates the value of 

 even small savings how they sometimes enable a 

 deserving man to seize upon the golden opportunity 

 the moment it presents itself. 



There is another class of city owners, not profes 

 sional traders in property, who, having something 

 which they were anxious to part with, have ex 

 changed it for a farm, thinking thus to better them 

 selves. But these soon discover that a farm so far 

 off that one can rarely see it, is a great plague, arid 

 speedily become anxious to sell, even at a loss. If 

 a sale for money be found impossible, then one on 

 credit is gladly made. The main object is not so 

 much to get money as to shake off a perpetual care. 

 They discover that an idle farm goes to ruin as rap 

 idly as an idle steamboat. 



Here are different classes of persons, all owners 

 of farms, and all governed by the same feeling, that 

 of anxiety to get rid of them. These reside in cities. 



