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face, inftead of ploughing it; he gently 

 rebukes him at firft, but takes efpecial care, 



that the abufe is not repeated. He is 



ploughing in feed- time, or in any other 

 bufy feafon ; the weather is precari- 

 ous ; clover to be fown ; harrowing to 

 be done only while the land is dry, and rain 

 expe&ed; or, in a word, a thouiand 

 circumflances of the fame fort. He thinks 

 it a great benefit to plough an acre ; 

 IT is DONE. Why mould the man, or 

 labourer at plough with him, objed to it ? 

 If they are not employed at that work, they 

 will upon fome other, and perhaps a more 

 laborious one ; they are not afraid of a want 

 of time to take care of their horfes ; the far- 

 mer does that work all himfelf. In a word, 

 his only confideration is his horfes ; if he 

 overworks them, he feeds them in propor- 

 tion, and fo the matter ends. 



Now, pafs the hedge of this farm, and 

 enter that of a gentleman, who thinks, 

 like the farmer, that as the feafon is fine 

 he mould make good ufe of it, and get his 

 barley-feed into the ground as faft as pof- 

 fible; he therefore allows his horfes each 

 two pecks of corn more in a week, and 

 2, better 



