16 TOM’S EXPERIENCE 
course—or even a couple of years in the old Academy 
under good old Doctor Williams—would have given 
me. I would not change my farmer’s life to-day for 
a professional one, but I can’t see why a college 
course isn’t as good for a farmer as a lawyer. 
WELL-TO-DO—-FOR TENANTS. 
At the time the conversation above reported took 
place I was in my thirty-first year, and had been mar- 
ried six years and had two children. Those six years 
had been spent on that farm; my wife and I had 
both worked hard and economized as closely as we 
knew how, and at that time were cousidered pretty 
well off and well-to-do, for tenants. 
But we were both tired of being tenants, and for a 
good while had been seriously thinking of going 
West and trying there to make a home of our own. 
A LITTLE INVENTORY. 
While we were considered by our acquaintances well 
off—for tenants-—our worldly possessions seemed to 
us rather meager for six years of hard work and close 
economy. They consisted principally of the follow- 
ing: 
Household furniture, about .......... $250 00 
Four good work horses.............. 400 00 
Peur need ot cattle... 660) o.6.ch ta ee 100 00 
Bixiene Of (hogs v6.53). ka amen 50 00 
Farming implements, abont.......... 350 00 
Money in Bank oo 00008 Stee 850 00 
§ IB 7, iets i a2 PTS ea es Aid ate $2,000 00 
