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roller, two wheelbarrows, an iron scraper, fly nets 

 and other stable equipment, shovels, spades, hay 

 forks, posthole tools, a hand seeder, a chest of 

 tools, stock-pails, milk-pails and pans, axes, 

 hatchets, saws of various kinds, a maul and 

 wedges, six kegs of nails, and three lanterns. 

 The total amount was 1488 ; but as I received 

 five per cent discount, I paid only $464. The 

 goods, except the wagons and harnesses, were to 

 go by freight to Exeter. Polly was to buy the 

 necessary furnishings for the men's house, the 

 only stipulation I made being that the beds 

 should be good enough for me to sleep in. On 

 the 25th of July she showed me a list of the 

 things which she had purchased. It seemed in- 

 terminable ; but she assured me that she had 

 bought nothing unnecessary, and that she had 

 been very careful in all her purchases. As I 

 knew that Polly was in the habit of getting the 

 worth of her money, I paid the bills without 

 more ado. The list footed up to $495. 



Most of the housekeeping things were to be 

 delivered at the station in Exeter ; the rest were 

 to go on the wagons. On the afternoon of the 

 30th the wagons and harnesses were sent to 

 the stable where the horses had been kept, and the 

 articles to go in these wagons were loaded for an 

 early start the following morning. The distance 

 from the station in the city to the station at 

 Exeter is thirty miles, but the stable is three 

 miles from the city station, the farm two and a 



