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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 con- 

 sid-er-a-tion, as Trapbois would say. As to farming, 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 time, will ride over his grounds, admire 

 his cattle, his bluegrass pasture, his Pattons and his Dur- 

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

 Archie's our Kentucky farmer 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, seldom changes 

 his habits, and on the whole constitutes a very substantial, 

 clean, industrious, but unenterprising farmer. 



Then there is a New York Yankee ; he has got a grand 

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

 knows a little about everything ; he " lays off" the timber 

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

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

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

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

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

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

 mid 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 



