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of the money ? Will you live like one of the 

 Yeomen of your rank here ? Then, I assure 

 you, that your domestics and groceries (the 

 latter three times as dear as they are here) and 

 crockery-ware (equally dear) will more than 

 swallow up that pitiful sum. You allow six 

 thousand dollars for buildings. Twice the sum 

 would not put you, in this respect, upon a 

 footing with Mr. Lawrence. His land is all 

 completely fenced and his grain in the ground. 

 His apple trees have six thousand bushels of 

 apples in their buds, ready to corne out in the 

 spring ; and, a large part of these to be sold 

 at a high price to go on ship-board. But, what 

 is to give you his market? What is to make 

 your pork, as soon as killed, sell for 9 or 10 

 dollars a hundred, and your cows at 45 or 50 

 dollars each, and your beef at 7 or 8 dollars a 

 hundred, and your corn at a dollar, and wheat 

 at two dollars a bushel ? 



994. However, happiness is in the mind; 

 and, if it be necessary to the gratification of 

 your mind to inhabit a wilderness and be the 

 owner of a large tract of land, you are right to 

 seek and enjoy this gratification. But, for the 

 plain, plodding English Farmer, who simply 

 seeks safety for his little property, with some 

 addition to it for his children ; for such a per 

 son to cross the Atlantic states in search of 

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