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We are informed by his great grandson, that 

 now, to add to his means, he began a system 

 of industry, the relation of which will surprise 

 you. I will read it to you, having brought the 

 little book containing it in my pocket : "In 

 the mornings before school-time, and in the 

 evenings, he laboured in manual occupations : 

 during the day he taught the school. He 

 made his own sermons, and performed the whole 

 duty twice on Sundays. In summer, he rose 

 between three and four o'clock, and went to 

 the field with his scythe, his rake, and in 

 harvest time, with his sickle. He ploughed, 

 he planted, he went up the mountains after 

 the sheep, he sheared and salved them ; he dug 

 peat, all for hire. When engaged in these 

 employments, he would be at work long before 

 those who were regular labourers, and remain 

 after they had finished their day's work. Nor was 

 he only diligent in such labours, but he excelled. 

 In winter, he occupied himself in reading, 

 writing his sermons, or in those domestic em- 

 ployments which are now generally performed, 

 if not by machinery, by old and indigent fe- 

 males. He was an excellent spinner of linen 

 and woollen thread. All his own cloathes, and 



