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will he by any other means get in the crop ; 

 and, even then, if he pay fair wages, he will 

 lose by it. 



1012. After the crop is in and the seed sown, 

 in the fall, what is to become of Simpleton's 

 men till Com ploughing and planting time in the 

 spring ? And, then, when the planting is done, 

 what is to become of them till harvest time? 

 Is he, like BAYES, in the Rehearsal, to lay them 

 down when he pleases, and when he pleases 

 make them rise up again? To hear you talk about 

 these crops, and, at other times to hear you ad 

 vising others to bring labourers from England, 

 one would think you, for your own part, able, 

 liHe CADMUS, to make men start up out of the 

 earth. How would one ever have thought it 

 ppssible for infatuation like this to seize hold of 

 a mind like yours ? * 



1013. When I read in your Illinois Letters, 

 tb&t you had prepa/ted horses, ploughs, and 

 other things, for putting in a hundred acres of 

 Corn in the Springy how I pitied you ! I saw all 

 your plagues, if you could not see them. I 

 saw the grass choking your plants ; the grubs 

 eating them; and you fretting and turning from 

 the sight with all the pangs of sanguine baffled 

 hope. I expected you to have ten bushels, in 

 stead of 'fifty \ upon an acre. I saw your confu 

 sion, and participated in your mortification. 



