AND WHERE TO FIND ONE. 333 



that the comfort and convenience of those who perform it 

 is not worth consulting. The thrift, the energy, and com 

 fort of Northern households is unknown in this latitude.* 



&quot; Look now at the prices of necessary articles of food. 

 On your farm, however small, your cellar was always filled 

 with an unlimited supply of such vegetables as you desired, 

 and barrels of beef and pork of your own slaughtering. 

 Your granary had always as much of corn and rye, and 

 perhaps of wheat, as you chose to use. Your cows at all 

 times gave you milk and butter in abundance, and your 

 garden and orchard supplied fruits for yourself and the 

 children without stint. Now you buy a peck of potatoes 

 for three shillings, beef at sixteen cents a pound, turkeys 

 at from a dollar and a quarter to two dollars each, chick 

 ens with the shells scarcely off their heads, not larger 

 than robins, at twenty-five cents each, butter at thirty- one 

 cents, and milk at eight. Instead of enjoying the abun 

 dance of the earth, as you have been accustomed to do, 

 you begin to associate the idea of dollars and cents with 

 the food on your table ; you are compelled to vex yourself 

 with economizing in the details of living, and to feel your 

 soul gradually narrowing in, to a conformity with narrow 

 circumstances. You find yourself a poorer man than while 

 upon your hard Northern farm, poorer in your animal 

 means of living, poorer in comparison with those around 

 you, poorer in independence, in prospects for yourself and 

 family, poorer in everything.&quot; 



This leaving the farm for a fortune is deplored in 

 grapkic terms by the author, &quot; Doesticks,&quot; who 

 avers that 



* This was written in 1854. Ten years have revolutionized, 

 redeemed, and purified Washington. 



