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good-natured wife, he gives up the town and is a regular 

 farmer. 



In Germany he owned nothing and never could ; his 

 wages were nominal, his diet chiefly vegetable, and his 

 prospect was, that he would be obliged to labor as a menial 

 for life, barely earning a subsistence and not leaving 

 enough to bury him. In five years, he has become the 

 owner in fee simple of a good farm, with comfortable fix 

 tures, a prospect of rural wealth, an independent life, and, 

 by the blessing of heaven and his wife, of an endless pos 

 terity. Two words tell the whole story Industry and 

 Economy. These two words will make any man rich at 

 the West. 



We know of another case. While Gesenius, the world 

 wide famous Hebrew scholar, was as school, he had a 

 bench-fellow named Eitlegeorge. I know nothing of his 

 former life. But ten years ago I knew him in Cincinnati as 

 a baker, and a first-rate one too ; and while Gesenius issued 

 books and got fame, Eitlegeorge issued bread and got 

 money. At length he disappeared from the city. Travel 

 ling from Cincinnati to Indianapolis, a year or two since, I 

 came upon a farm of such fine land that it attracted my 

 attention, and induced me to ask for the owner. It belonged 

 to our friend of the oven ! There was a whole township 

 belonging to him, and a good use he appeared to make of 

 it. Courage then, ye bakers ! In a short time you may 

 raise wheat instead of molding dough. 



A HOLE IN THE POCKET. If it were not for these holes 

 in the pocket, we should all be rich. A pocket is like a cis 

 tern, a small leak at the bottom is worse than a large pump 

 at the top. God sends rain enough every year, but it is 

 not every man that will take pains to catch it ; and it is not 

 every man that catches it who knows how to keep it. 



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