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ricLiltiiral library, and he reads constantly the American Farmer 

 and the New England Farmer and the Albany Cnltivator; and 

 lies in bed until eight o'clock, for he went into the country 

 to enjoy himself; and cannot allow a hired man to come " be- 

 tween the wind and his nobility, " because he smells so strong 

 of the barn ; and then he wants to enjoy his friends, and keep 

 his carriage and give his dinner parties, and carry the city man- 

 ners into the country with a little extra extravagance, that his 

 family may convince their friends that they can entertain them 

 as well in the country as in the town ; and all this time he 

 professes to wonder that his farm does not support him and his 

 family and make him rich into the bargain. This disap- 

 pointment is very apt to sour his otherwise amiable temper ; 

 and he goes on to curse the farm as though like a clock, if it 

 were only wound up once a week, it would keep time of itself ; 

 and then he goes on to curse his industrious neighbors, who 

 succeed when he cannot succeed, though he is at four times the 

 expense which they are at ; and then he curses the poor hard- 

 working Irish, who he wishes were back into their own bogs ; 

 and then he charges the whole race of hired men as having 

 conspired to defraud him ; and in the midst of all his disap- 

 pointments, his dreams of rural felicity and farming profits 

 have vanished like the evening clouds and left him in darkness. 

 Could he have expected it should be otherwise ? Would he 

 under similar conduct have succeeded better in any line of bus- 

 iness whatever ? Will the study of Babbage's Calculating 

 Machine or Blaine's Cotton Manufacture or McCulloch's Com- 

 mercial Dictionary, or Bowditch's Navigator, qualify a man 

 at once to superintend a cotton mill or to embark in an extend- 

 ed commerce or to navigate a ship, or in any respect supply the 

 place of practical experience and personal assiduity, inspection 

 and vigilance ? 1 need not answer these questions. Men can- 

 not be successful, in the same sense of the term, farming can- 

 not be made matter of pecuniary profit, even under the most 

 favorable external circumstances, in truth, men cannot escape 

 loss in its prosecution, but upon the same common-sense prin- 



