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you can watch it. Drive at your business, if you would 

 prosper. In farming, there is no ile like elbow grease, 

 Yours to command, 



TIMOTHY BUNKER, ESQ. 

 Hookertown, March 10, 1865. 



75. TIM BUNKER S VISIT TO TITUS OAKS, 

 ESQ. 



MR. EDITOR : You see I hadn t more than got done 

 with Diah Tubbs and his pickle patch, when I begun to 

 grow uneasy for something else to talk about. Some folks 

 can set round the fire and talk with the women all day, 

 but I never could do up my visiting in that way. I knew 

 I had got about all out of Uncle Di in one evening that I 

 should get out of him if I pumped him till doomsday. 

 So the next morning, after breakfast, I begun to inquire 

 about the neighboring country and farmers. Says I, 



&quot;Uncle Di, your Westchester county is a great country. 

 I have heard of it clear up in Connecticut. You ought to 

 have some smart farmers round here that go in for fancy 

 stock.&quot; 



&quot; Jest so. We have lots on em. Fellers that got rich 

 in the city, and come out here and spend their money and 

 call it high farming. I ll bet you a shad, every potato 

 they raise costs em a dollar.&quot; 



* How do you make that out ? &quot; 



&quot; Wai, ye see, they take perticuler pains to buy the 

 roughest, stoniest place they can find, and next see how 

 much money they can bury up in it. They blow rocks, 

 tear down hills, drain swamps, fill up ponds that is, and 

 dig ponds that ain t, and call em lakes; cut down trees 



