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unblushingly publish my guilt* if I did not know that 
most of my readers were equally guilty with myself, and 
that their deeds would look no better in print. The 
next year I sometimes caught a mess of fish for my 
dinner, and once I went so far as to slaughter a wood¬ 
chuck which ravaged my bean-field,—effect his transmi¬ 
gration, as a Tartar would say, — and devour him, part¬ 
ly for experiment’s sake; but though it afforded me a 
momentary enjoyment, notwithstanding a musky flavor, 
I saw that the longest use would not make that a good 
practice, however it might seem to have your wood¬ 
chucks ready dressed by the village butcher. 
Clothing and. some incidental expenses within the 
same dates, though little can be inferred from this 
item, amounted to 
$8 401 
Oil and some household utensils, . . . 2 00 
So that all the pecuniary outgoes, excepting for wash¬ 
ing and mending, which for the most part were done out 
of the house, and their bills have not yet been received, 
— and these are all and more than all the ways by 
which money necessarily goes out in this part of the 
world, — were 
House,. 
12| 
Farm one year, .... 
72| 
Food eight months, 
8 
74 
Clothing, &,c., eight months, . 
8 
401 
Oil, &c., eight months, 
. . 2 
00 
In all,.. 
991 
I address myself now to those of my readers who have 
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