110 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



who left the press to give us chairs, and with whom we had an 

 interesting conversation about the town and about his trade. 

 Printers wages, if I recollect rightly, were about one quarter 

 more in New York than in Chester. After purchasing a 

 guide-book and a few prints of him, we accepted his invita 

 tion to leave our knapsacks in his shop, and take a walk on 

 the walls before entering the town. 





