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better chaff : Will his work be done ? 

 Not it. He does not take care of his own 

 horfes, but his man, labourer, horfe-keeper 

 or what not, who will take, he may be af- 

 fured, plenty of time to attend the horfes ; 

 which is but a matter of idlenefs, and gof- 

 fopping in the flable. He will be told, that 

 the cuftom of the country is to plough but 

 an acre a day : that that quantity is done ; 

 that there would not be time fufficient to 

 take care of the horfes, if more was done : 

 that Bald wants a fhoe that the chaff 

 muft be got home from the barn that the 

 hay is done and, in fhort, a million of 

 trivial excufes mere evafions, but which 

 will be too powerful for him to conquer, 

 manage as he pleafes. 



In harveft or hay-time, a farmer who 

 drives his own horfes will clear twice the 

 ground that a gentleman's fervant will do. 



In carting dung, clay, marie, &c. &c. 

 let the gentleman and the farmer compare 

 notes ; whofe tally will have the moft 

 notches ? It is filled perhaps by the load ; 

 the farmer drives away his : the gentle- 

 man is purfuing a fox ; or reading by his 



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