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Besides all this, the tailor could not make 

 us clothes, nor the hatter and milliner hats and 

 bonnets, nor the shoemaker boots and shoes. 

 When those which we have by us already 

 made were worn out, we should be obliged to 

 go naked, summer and winter, in all climates ; 

 for we could not get even the skins of animals. 



Then again, we could not write to other 

 parts of the country for help, even if there 

 were any body to help us. Neither could the 

 mariner seek a cargo of food in other countries ; 

 for he could not spread his sails, or hold the 

 helm of his vessel. In short, we could do 

 nothing long, to any purpose ; but after gazing 

 awhile upon each other's starving and ema- 

 ciated frames, we should all lie together in one 

 common tomb and that tomb would be the 

 surface of the earth, arched over with the blue 

 canopy of the heavens ; for nobody could be 

 buried. 



Some of you may think this representation 

 of the sad case we should be in rather exag- 

 gerated. "We should not be such helpless 

 creatures," you may perhaps say. "Why, 



