For seldome should we be alone, our Neighbours oftner frequenting our House than we desired; out of whom to be sure we could pick no Profit.

For their coming is always either to beg or borrow.

For altho we were Strangers and Prisoners in their Land, yet they would confess that Almighty God had dealt far more bountifully with us than with them, in that we had a far greater plenty of all things than they.
[He takes up a new Trade and Thrives on it.] I now began to set up a new Trade.

For the Trade of Knitting was grown dead, and Husbandry I could not follow, not having a Wife to help and assist me therein, a great part of Husbandry properly belonging to the woman to manage.

Whereupon I perceived a Trade in use among them, which was to lend out Corn.