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good-natured wife, he gives up the town and is a regular 

 fanner. 



In Germany he owned nothing and never could; his 

 wages were nominal, his diet chiefly vegetable, and his 

 prospect was, that he would be obliged to labor as a menial 

 for life, barely earning a subsistence and not leaving 

 enough to bury him. In five years, he has become the 

 owner in fee simple of a good farm, with comfortable fix- 

 tures, a prospect of rural wealth, an independent life, and, 

 by the blessing of heaven and his wife, of an endless pos- 

 terity. Two words tell the whole story Industry and 

 Economy. These two words will make any man rich at 

 the West. 



We know of another case. While Gesenius, the world- 

 wide famous Hebrew scholar, was as school, he had a 

 bench-fellow named Eitlegeorge. I know nothing of his 

 former life. But ten years ago I knew him in Cincinnati as 

 a baker, and a first-rate one too ; and while Gesenius issued 

 books and got fame, Eitlegeorge issued bread and got 

 money. At length he disappeared from the city. Travel- 

 ling from Cincinnati to Indianapolis, a year or two since, I 

 came upon a farm of such fine land that it attracted my 

 attention, and induced me to ask for the owner. It belonged 

 to our friend of the oven ! There was a whole township 

 belonging to him, and a good use he appeared to make of 

 it. Courage then, ye bakers ! In a short time you may 

 raise wheat instead of molding dough. 



A HOLE IN THE POCKET. If it were not for these holes 

 in the pocket, we should all be rich. A pocket is like a cis- 

 tern, a small leak at the bottom is worse than a large pump 

 at the top. God sends rain enough every year, but it is 

 not every man that will take pains to catch it ; and it is not 

 every man that catches it who knows how to keep it. 



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