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



















































































































































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Pray do not laugh in thus seeing an artless countryman tracing
himself through the simple modifications of his life; remember - Page 47
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Pray Do Not Laugh In Thus Seeing An Artless Countryman Tracing Himself Through The Simple Modifications Of His Life; Remember That You Have Required It, Therefore With Candour, Though With Diffidence, I Endeavour To Follow The Thread Of My Feelings, But I Cannot Tell You All.

Often when I plough my low ground, I place my little boy on a chair which screws to the beam of the plough - its motion and that of the horses please him; he is perfectly happy and begins to chat.

As I lean over the handle, various are the thoughts which crowd into my mind. I am now doing for him, I say, what my father formerly did for me, may God enable him to live that he may perform the same operations for the same purposes when I am worn out and old! I relieve his mother of some trouble while I have him with me, the odoriferous furrow exhilarates his spirits, and seems to do the child a great deal of good, for he looks more blooming since I have adopted that practice; can more pleasure, more dignity be added to that primary occupation? The father thus ploughing with his child, and to feed his family, is inferior only to the emperor of China ploughing as an example to his kingdom. In the evening when I return home through my low grounds, I am astonished at the myriads of insects which I perceive dancing in the beams of the setting sun. I was before scarcely acquainted with their existence, they are so small that it is difficult to distinguish them; they are carefully improving this short evening space, not daring to expose themselves to the blaze of our meridian sun.

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