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

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.

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