SBulfos anii 



AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND, 



CHAPTER I. 



EMIGRANT PASSENGER AGENTS. SECOND CABIN. MUTINY. DELAY. 



DEPARTURE. 



E intended, if we could be suited, to take a second-cabin 

 state-room for our party of three, and to accommodate 

 me my friends had agreed to wait till &quot; after planting&quot; 

 While I therefore hurried on the spring work upon my farm, 

 they in the city were examining ships and consulting passen 

 ger agents. The confidence in imposition those acquire who 

 are in the habit of dealing with emigrant passengers, was 

 amusingly shown in the assurance with which they would 

 attempt to lie down the most obvious objections to what they 

 had to offer ; declaring that a cabin disgusting with filth and 

 the stench of bilge- water was sweet and clean, that darkness 

 in which they would be groping was very light (a trick, cer- 



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