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Sweeping yards, &c. 



Attending cattle, poultry, pigs, &c. 



Weeding nurferies, ditches, &c. 



Collecting leaves for manure. 



Picking and preparing potatoes for feed, and for 

 food for cattle, &c. 



Making various kinds of creels and baflcets. 



Drawing ftraw for thatching. 



Turning and preparing dung and compoft heaps. 



Spreading dung for potatoes, &c. &c. 



Old men are of great ufe on many occafions ; indeed 

 I have known many of them to be more fo than per- 

 fons in the meridian of life. The only point to at- 

 tend to is, to fet them to works fuitable to their 

 ftrcngth and conftitution, and they will always be 



found ufcful to thcmfoJyc, and to their employers and 



patrons. 



Old men in general are fond of company. If two 

 of them are placed together, they look upon them- 

 felvea to be well treated. They fpend the day in talk- 

 ing over paft times, and of their great feats when young 

 men ; yet all this will not prevent them from going on 

 with their works in a flow but fure manner. 



In fetting old men to work, many jobs fhould not 

 be laid out, or propofed to them at one time, as in ge- 

 neral they are forgetful. The bell way to make the 

 mofl of them is, to praife their performances, and find 

 as little fault as poffible, fince they are ia general te- 

 nacious 



