Here life is complete.

The plantation is one great workshop where trades are learned and carried out-shoeing, blacksmithing, building, working in wood and metal.
I am learning here--you see I am quite old, for I am twenty-one now -- the art of management.

They tell me that when my uncle's day is done--I grieve to think it is not far off--I must take the rod of control.

I work very, very hard.

I have to learn figures and finance; I have to see how all the work is done, so that I shall know it is done right.