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completely. We love happiness ; and out greatest happiness is to clear 

 our fields and to build our houses. 



I tell you truly, every thing is in the earth. Therefore I say to 

 you, bend down your backs, grasp the hoe, hoe deep, weed clean ; 

 and you will obtain eatables. Then, in times of scarcity and famine 

 you will be able to purchase kyee-zees. Grasp the axe firmly, and clear 

 a wide field; and you will obtain abundance of paddy. Then when 

 times of scarcity and famine come, you will be able to buy buffaloes, 

 and they will be the gains of your labour, the work of your hands. 



If you want to obtain gongs, weed and make it all clean around 

 your paddy. Then when times of scarcity and famine come, you will 

 be able to purchase gongs ; and they will be the gains of your labour, 

 the work of your hands. 



If you want to obtain silver, plant your fields industriously, and 

 when the rains come, your paddy will spring up abundantly, and you 

 will have good crops. Then you will be able to procure silver, and 

 it will be the gains of your labour, the work of your hands. 



If you want to obtain hogs and fowls, take cotton and make clothes. 

 Then you will be able to procure hogs and fowls,* and they will 

 be the gains of your labour, the work of your hands. 



If you want handsome clothes, spin thread diligently, put in the 

 woof and the warp, and weave. Then you will obtain clothes, and 

 they will be the gains of your labour, the work of your hands. 



All things are in the earth, and every one who will work hard 

 will obtain them ; and he will have eatables ami drinkables, and 'will 

 become rich, and will have in abundance. When he dies, he will 

 leave his property to his children and grandchildren, and they 

 will enjoy it. It will not be like those who obtain property by 

 reprisals and forays. That is ill-gotten wealth, and is accompanied 

 by hatred aad malice ; and their children never enjoy it. It goes to 

 to their enemies. 



Children and grandchildren, work hard, put forth every exertion 

 and you will obtain everything by the labour of your own hands 



i^/^.-Therefore I say to you concerning the indolent. Lazy 

 people do not like to expose their bodies to the sun, or rain, so their 

 skin and flesh are comfortable, and do not suffer like the skin and 

 * That is by selling the clothes. 



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