House,................................ $ 28.12½
Farm one year,.......................... 14.72½
Food eight months,...................... 8.74
Clothing, etc., eight months,........... 8.40¾
Oil, &c., eight months,................. 2.00
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In all,........................... $ 61.99¾
I address myself now to those of my readers who have a living to get. And to meet this I have for farm produce sold
$23.44
Earned by day-labor,................... 13.34
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In all,............................ $36.78,
which subtracted from the sum of the outgoes leaves a balance of $25.21¾ on the one side,—this being very nearly the means with which I started, and the measure of expenses to be incurred,—and on the other, beside the leisure and independence and health thus secured, a comfortable house for me as long as I choose to occupy it.
These statistics, however accidental and therefore uninstructive they may appear, as they have a certain completeness, have a certain value also.