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such luxuries is not so much a farm life, as it is a life 

 a long way from town. 



Rus hoc vocari debet, an domus longe ? 



It is the irony of Martial in the concluding line* 

 of his Faustine epigram ; and with it, I whip my 

 chapter of figures to a close. 



Money-Making Farmers. 



WHERE are the men then, who have grubbed 

 out of the reluctant eastern soil, their 

 stocking-legs of specie, and their funds at the bank ? 

 They are not wholly myths ; there are such. Find 

 me a man, who, by aptitude at bargaining (let us not 

 call it jockeyism), can reduce the labor estimates in 

 the foregoing accounts by a third ; and who, by a 

 kindred quality, can add to the amount of sales by a 

 third; who can, by dint of early rising and per- 

 petual presence, stretch the ten-hour system into 

 twelve or fourteen ; who, by a conquest of all finer 

 appetites, can reduce the home consumption to a 

 third of the figure named in my estimates, and you 

 have a type of one class. A union of tremendous 

 energy and shrewdness ; keenly alive to the phases 

 of the market ; an ally of all the hucksters ; sharp to 

 pounce upon some poor devil of an emigrant, before 

 he has learned the current rate of wages ; gifted with 



