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appetite for it, and that makes up the difference. If 

 their clothes ain't as fine as yourn, it keeps them 

 warm, and that's all the rich man's can do. They 

 sleep better at night, because they've got no cares to 

 trouble 'em, and they don't get up with a head-ache in 

 the morning, on account of dyspepsy, for their labor 

 keeps up digestion. 



" Don't understand me, Squire, as believin' that 

 riches, and larnin' and wisdom ain't to be sought after, 

 nor that everybody should be like the people of the 

 back settlements I've been speakin* about. I wouldn't 

 have everybody like me either. The world would be 

 in a bad fix, if it was so. I'd have everj^body go 

 ahead, everywhere. I'd have all the world try to be- 

 come wise, and larned, and rich, and be polished and 

 genteel, and I'd push good society as far towards the 

 back settlements as I could, or as the fitness of things 

 would allow. I send my children to school, and tell 

 *em to get all the larnin' they can, and be wiser, and 

 better, and have more property than their father ever 

 had. But, as I said afore, it takes all sorts of people 

 to make up a world. You've got your place in it, and 

 I've got mine, and I'm goin' to stay where I am, be- 



