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Updated: June 3, 2025
The instincts of his wild race were busy within him. To them a flight of locusts is not an object of dread, but a source of rejoicing their coming as welcome as a take of shrimps to a Leigh fisherman, or harvest to the husband-man. The dogs, too, barked and howled with joy, and frisked about as if they were going out upon a hunt.
The same desire of gain which had urged him to gamble and speculate when thrown in societies rife with such example, led him, now in the Bush, to healthful, industrious, persevering labour. "Spes fovet agricolas," says the poet; the same Hope which entices the fish to the hook impels the plough of the husband-man.
A relaxation of the interdict upon the importation of grain and flour from abroad has ensued, a propitious market has been opened to the granaries of our country, and a new prospect of reward presented to the labors of the husband-man, which for several years has been denied. This accession to the profits of agriculture in the middle and western portions of our Union is accidental and temporary.
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