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roller, two wheelbarrows, an iron scraper, fly nets 
and other stable equipment, shovels, spades, hay 
forks, posthole tools, a hand seeder, a chest of 
tools, stock-pails, milk-pails and pans, axes, 
hatchets, saws of various kinds, a: maul and 
wedges, six kegs of nails, and three lanterns. 
The total amount was $488; but as I received 
five per cent discount, I paid only $464. The 
goods, except the wagons and harnesses, were to 
go by freight to Exeter. Polly was to buy the 
necessary furnishings for the men’s house, the 
only stipulation I made being that the beds 
should be good enough for me to sleep in. On 
the 25th of July she showed me a list of the 
things which she had purchased. It seemed in- 
terminable; but she assured me that she had 
bought nothing unnecessary, and that she had 
been very careful in all her purchases. As I 
_ knew that Polly was in the habit of getting the 
worth of her money, I paid the bills without 
more ado. The list footed up to $495. 
Most of the housekeeping things were to be 
delivered at the station in Exeter; the rest were 
4 to go on the wagons. On the afternoon of the 
30th the wagons and harnesses were sent to 
4 the stable where the horses had been kept, and the 
articles to go in these wagons were loaded for an 
1 early start the following morning. The distance 
from the station in the city to the station at 
_ Exeter is thirty miles, but the stable is three 
miles from the city station, the farm two and a 
