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to do. He is a great hunter and must go out for three or 

 four days every season after deer. He loves office quite 

 well, and is always willing to " serve the public " for a eon- 

 sid-er-a-tion, as Ti-apbois would say. As to fanning, he 

 hires more than he works ; but, now and then, as at plant- 

 ing or harvesting, he will lay hold for a week or a month 

 with perfect farming fury, and that's the last of it. As to 

 working every day and every hour, it would be intolerable ! 

 He is a great horse-raiser, is fond of stock, and if a free and 

 easy fellow ready to laugh, not careful of his purse, nor 

 particular about his tiiiK', will ride over his grounds, admire 

 his cattle, his blmur.i-^ pasture, \i\< Pattons and his Dur- 

 hams; and above all, that blooded lilly, or that colt of Sir 

 Archie's — our Kentucky faimer will declare him the finest 

 fellow alive, and his house will be open to him from year's 

 end to year's end again. 



Right along side of him is a " Pennsylvany Dutch," good- 

 natured, laborious, frugal and prosperous. He minds his 

 own business. Seldom wrangles for office. Is not very 

 public spirited, although he likes very well to see things 

 prosper. He farms carefully on the old approved plan of 

 his father, plants by the signs in the moon, scl.L.m dinnges 

 his habits, and on the whole constitutes a ^ ' inti;il, 



clean, industrious, but unenterprising farmer. 



Then there is a ^^ew York Yankee ; he has got a grand 

 piece of land, has paid for it, and got money to boot ; he 

 knows a little about ever}-thing ; he " lays off" the timber 

 for a fine large house — bossed the job himself. "Wlien it 

 was up he stuck on a kitchen, then a pjmtry on to that, then 

 a pump-room on that, then a wood-house on that, and then 

 a smoke-house for the feg end ; a fine garden, a snug little 

 nursery well tended, good orchards ; by and by a second 

 form, pretty soon a boy on it, all married and fixed off; by 

 and by again another snug little farm, and then another 

 boy on it, with a little wife to help him ; and then a spruce 

 young fellow is seen about the premises, and after a while 



