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Having, in my first sheet, tried to show that merchants, [underline] & mechanics, [underline] don't become rich who don't [start double underline] work hard, [end double underline] - who lay in bed late in the morning, & spend their evenings at the theatre, - who go a fishing, or gunning, or girling, [double underline] when they ought to be attending to their business: - that farmers [underline] never raise a great crop without [start double underline] work hard [end double underline] in seed time, & without skilful cultivation of their plants, & patient watching of their fields; that men in no [underline] department ever arrive as any thing great, & noble, to any of life's pleasures [underline] that are real,[underline] xand rational, & abiding, without applying their head & hands with their might, daily, & yearly, to labor well directed for the accomplishment of their purposes, I will fall back into my usual style of serving up for your entertainment, the little matters & things of homely occurrence, in our family, & neighborhood. There is, however, one question in your letter which I will first reply to. You say you wish you was [start underline] with me [end underline], & ask if [start double underline] you can't be. [end double underline] Yes; if we live, we can [underline] be together, whether we be here, or in some other place; and nothing which I can think of, would gratify me more than to be, as long as I live, with [start underline] all my children. [end underline] But I would deny myself this unspeakable comfort for their [underline] sake. If you return here, I shall enjoy your company, if [start underline] I think you are usefully employed, & doing what is best for yourself. [end underline]