Clothing and some incidental expenses within the same dates, though little can be inferred from this item, amounted to
| $8.40¾ | |
| 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, | $28.12½ |
| Farm one year, | 14.72½ |
| Food eight months, | 8.74 |
| Clothing, &c., eight months, | 8.40¾ |
| Oil, &c., eight months, | 2.00 |
| _______ | |
| In all, | $61.99¾ |
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 |
| _______ | |
| 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.
