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J010. However, crops now come tumbling 

 on him so fast, that he must struggle hard not to 

 be stifled with his own superabundance. He 

 has now got 200 acres of corn and 100 acres of 

 wheat, which latter he has, indeed, had one 

 year before! Oh, madness! But, to proceed. 

 To get in these crops and to sow the wheat, 

 first taking away 200 acres of English cop 

 pice \t\ stalks, will, with the dunging for the 

 wheat, require, at \e&$t, fifty good men, and forty 

 good horses or oxen, for thirty days. Faith !* 

 when farmer Simpleton sees all this (in his 

 dreams I mean), he will think himself a farmer 

 of the rank of JOB, before Satan beset that ex 

 ample of patience, so worthy of imitation, and 

 so seldom imitated. 



1011. Well, but Simpleton must bustle to get, 

 in his wheat. In, indeed ! What can cover it, 

 but the canopy of heaven? A barn! It will, 

 at two English waggon loads of sheaves to an 

 acre, require a barn a hundred feet long, fifty 

 feet wide, and twenty-three feet high up to the 

 eaves; and this barn, with two proper floors, 

 will cost more than seven thousand dollars. He 

 will put it in stacks ; let him add six men to his 

 battalion then. He will thrash it in the field ; 

 let him add ten more men ! Let him, at once, 

 send and press the Harmonites into his service, 

 aad make RAPP march at their head, for, never 



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