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than I had any reason to expect. I am not a farmer, and can't spend the time or money necessary to make myself one. -- If I was half as good a farmer, as my wife is, nothing would induce me to leave that place. | than I had any reason to expect. I am not a farmer, and can't spend the time or money necessary to make myself one. -- If I was half as good a farmer, as my wife is, nothing would induce me to leave that place. | ||
As it is, too much falls upon Martha it becomes too hard for her, especially when I am away,- as I doubtless should be a good deal if I kept my residence there. So for her sale, if for no other reason, I am inclined to make a change. - But besides this I am one who likes to be doing what I can ber [strike] do well. [underline] I can't farm to satisfy myself, I can [underline] do the work here to suit me and satisfy all. It is decidedly more in my line. Then too, it brings me into the world, instead of keeping me out of it, - and again among old friends & acquaintances. | As it is, too much falls upon Martha it becomes too hard for her, especially when I am away,- as I doubtless should be a good deal if I kept my residence there. So for her sale, if for no other reason, I am inclined to make a change. - But besides this I am one who likes to be doing what I can ber [strike] do well. [underline] I can't farm to satisfy myself, I can [underline] do the work here to suit me and satisfy all. It is decidedly more in my line. Then too, it brings me into the world, instead of keeping me out of it, - and again among old friends & acquaintances. | ||
I am here in my native Valley, but twenty miles from Greenfield, my birthplace,- ten from Amherst, where I have so many pleasant | I am here in my native Valley, but twenty miles from Greenfield, my birthplace,- ten from Amherst, where I have so many pleasant associations, and only three from Northampton, where now reside my step-mother and the four | ||
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than I had any reason to expect. I am not a farmer, and can't spend the time or money necessary to make myself one. -- If I was half as good a farmer, as my wife is, nothing would induce me to leave that place.
As it is, too much falls upon Martha it becomes too hard for her, especially when I am away,- as I doubtless should be a good deal if I kept my residence there. So for her sale, if for no other reason, I am inclined to make a change. - But besides this I am one who likes to be doing what I can ber [strike] do well. [underline] I can't farm to satisfy myself, I can [underline] do the work here to suit me and satisfy all. It is decidedly more in my line. Then too, it brings me into the world, instead of keeping me out of it, - and again among old friends & acquaintances.
I am here in my native Valley, but twenty miles from Greenfield, my birthplace,- ten from Amherst, where I have so many pleasant associations, and only three from Northampton, where now reside my step-mother and the four