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In anfwer to this, I have been more 

 than once told, / cannot fpare the money ^ 

 and this from men of large eflates : Who 

 the deuce fuppofes they can fpare three 

 thoufand pounds on demand ? But cannot 

 they borrow it ? Cannot they fpare 4 per 

 cent, for that fnm, while it brings them in 

 40 ? I have feen fo much of the languor of 

 thofe undertakings that depend on a fmall 

 annual fum, that I declare, if a nobleman 

 was on that plan, to offer me 20 per cent, 

 on an improvement propofed, for execut- 

 ing it ; and ^ per cent, on the fame advance; 

 but executed with the whole fum ready j 

 the latter is the offer I fliould prefer. It is 

 fomewhat paradoxical what objedfion the 

 mofl prudent landlord can have to bor- 

 rowing a fum of money for an improve- 

 ment in hufbandry. It is fo extremely 



common for all other purpofes, that no 

 good reafon can be given for this particu- 

 lar exception. Flowever, the improvements 

 that are attempted with annual fums, un- 

 lefs they amount to an equality with the 

 fums Iketched above, can never turn out 

 half fo profitable. It is for thefe reafons, 

 that I value my new-improved grafs at 20 s. 

 an acre; the languid improvements rifmg 

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