Letters From An American Farmer By Hector St. John De Crevecoeur



















































































































































 -  Wert thee to
write as well as friend Edmund, whose speeches I often see in our
papers, it would be - Page 38
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Wert Thee To Write As Well As Friend Edmund, Whose Speeches I Often See In Our Papers, It Would Be The Very Self Same Thing; Thee Wouldst Be Equally Accused Of Idleness, And Vain Notions Not Befitting Thy Condition.

Our colonel would be often coming here to know what it is that thee canst write so much about.

Some would imagine that thee wantest to become either an assembly-man or a magistrate, which God forbid; and that thee art telling the king's men abundance of things. Instead of being well looked upon as now, and living in peace with all the world, our neighbours would be making strange surmises: I had rather be as we are, neither better nor worse than the rest of our country folks. Thee knowest what I mean, though I should be sorry to deprive thee of any honest recreation. Therefore as I have said before, let it be as great a secret as if it was some heinous crime; the minister, I am sure, will not divulge it; as for my part, though I am a woman, yet I know what it is to be a wife. - I would not have thee, James, pass for what the world calleth a writer; no, not for a peck of gold, as the saying is. Thy father before thee was a plain dealing honest man, punctual in all things; he was one of yea and nay, of few words, all he minded was his farm and his work.

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