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FOURTH persuade a dozen or two of the farmer's servant 



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- girls to return with them, we should soon have 

 proof positive, that as good butter and cheese 

 may be made with the hair braided up, and a 

 daisy or primrose in it, as butter and cheese made 

 in a cap of barbarous shape; washed, perhaps, 

 in soap-suds last new moon. 

 Hotels and New York has very good hotels, and genteel 



boarding- * 



houses. boarding-houses. All charges included, you do 

 not pay above two dollars a day. Little enough, 

 when you consider the capital accommodations, 

 and the abundance of food. 



In this city, as well as in others which I visited, 

 every body seemed to walk at his ease. I could 

 see no inclination for jostling ; no impertinent 

 staring at you ; nor attempts to create a row in 

 order to pick your pocket. I would stand for an 

 hour together in Broadway, to observe the passing 

 multitude. There is certainly a gentleness in 

 these people, both to be admired and imitated. 

 I could see very few dogs, still fewer cats, and 

 but a very small proportion of fat women in the 

 streets of New York. The climate was the only 

 thing that I had really to find fault with; and 

 as the autumn was now approaching, I began to 

 think of preparing for warmer regions. 



climate. Strangers are apt to get violent colds, on 

 account of the sudden change of the atmosphere. 

 The noon would often be as warm as tropical 

 weather, and the close of day cold and chilly. 



