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for himself, and a canoe to go a-fishing in, and a 
fishing-rod and hooks and lines, and also darts, 
and a bow and arrows for hunting, besides tilling 
a little land perhaps. Such people are all much 
worse off than the poor among us, Their clothing 
is nothing more than coarse mats or raw-hides, 
their cabins are no better than pig-sties, their 
canoes are only hollow trees, or baskets made of 
bark, and all their tools are clumsy. When every 
man does every thing for himself, every thing is 
badly done; and a few hundreds of these savages 
will be half starved in a country which would 
maintain ten times as many thousands of us in 
much greater comfort. 
LESSON XLIIL 
COMMERCE: 
GOw-merce 
pro-duce 
ma-chines 
A-mer-i-08 
Por-tu-guese 
zep-a-rate 
wag-gon 
oa-nals 
diff-er-ont 
jea-lous 
peaco-a-bly 
per-verse 
There is also much useful exchange among dif- 
ferent nations, which we call commerce. AN 
sountries will not produce the same things; but, 
by means of exchange, each country may enjoy 
all the produce of all others, Cotton would not 
grow here, except in a hot-house; it grows in the 
fields ın America, but the Americans cannot spin 
and weave it so cheaply as we can, because we 
have more skill and better machines; it answers 
best, therefore, for them to send us the cotton 
wool, and they take in exchange part of the