Clothing and some incidental expenses within the same dates, though little can be inferred from this item, amounted to
$ 8.40-3/4
Oil and some household utensils ........ 2.00
So that all the pecuniary outgoes, excepting for washing and mending, which for the most part were done out of the house, and their bills have not yet been received -- and these are all and more than all the ways by which money necessarily goes out in this part of the world -- were
House ................................. $ 28.12+
Farm one year ........................... 14.72+
Food eight months ....................... 8.74
Clothing, etc., eight months ............ 8.40-3/4
Oil, etc., eight months ................. 2.00
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In all ............................ $ 61.99-3/4
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
$ 23.44
Earned by day-labor .................... 13.34
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In all ............................ $ 36.78,
which subtracted from the sum of the outgoes leaves a balance of $25.21 3/4 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. |