PART III.] MORRIS BTRKBECK, ESQ. 579 



within five miles of me, and one at two hundred 

 yards from my house. Still I thought, that it 

 was a brutal sort of thing to be obliged to send 

 twice to a mill, with all the uncertainties of 

 the business, in order to have a sack of wheat 

 or of barley ground. I sent for a mill-wright, 

 and, after making all the calculations, I re 

 solved to have a mill in my farm yard, to grind 

 for myself, and to sell my wheat in the shape 

 of flour. I had the mill erected in a pretty 

 little barn, well floored with oak, and standing 

 upon stones with caps: so that no rats or mice 

 could annoy me. The mill was to be moved 

 by horses, for which, to shelter them from the 

 wet, I had a shed with a circular roof erected 

 on the outside of the barn-. Under this roof, 

 as well as I recollect, there was a large wheel, 

 which the horses turned, and a bar, going from 

 that wheel, passed through into the barn, and 

 there it put the whole machinery in motion. 



1034. I have no skill in mechanics. I do 

 not, and did not, know one thing from another 

 by its name. All I looked to was the effect; 

 and this was complete. I had excellent flour. 

 All my meal was ground at hon\e. I was 

 never bothered with sending to the mill. My 

 ears were never after dinned with complaints 

 about bad flour and heavy bread. It was the 

 prettiest, most convenient, and most valuable 



