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58. But the cafe of the man who now takes a 



farm of a hundred and thirty pounds a year, is 



ii.ii K IS* 



very different. 



Let us fuppofe him to have a capital juft 

 fufficient to ftock it, and help him through the 

 extra expences of the firft year. 



His crops turn out tolerably, and having 

 common good luck with live ftock, the neat 

 produce of his farm juft clears its expences, 

 buys him a new coat, and pays his landlord : but 

 this done, he finds himlelf without a fixpence 

 left in his pocket for manure, or to go to a 

 cheap market with. 



This however is not all. In the courfe of the 

 year, he lofes a cow, perhaps a horfe. What is 

 to be done ? He is pennylefs, and cannot bor- 

 row a milling in the whole country. Why, he 

 muft either do without, to the great prejudice of 

 his farm, or fell fome other part of his ftock 

 to replace them with. 



The next year his wheat or his turnep-crop 

 fails him. He has not a milling before-hand 

 to carry him over the difficulty ; he confe- 

 quently becomes in arrear with his landlord ; 

 his fpirits are broken ; his, land not only wants 

 manure, but even labour and teathe , for he 

 is glad to fell his bullocks before Chriftmas ta 



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