He paid tribute to the miller and the weaver; our own servants could very well weave our linen, and crush our wheat between two stones.

He did all he could to ruin himself, and gave to strangers what ought to have been kept for the benefit of his own household." Full of this reasoning, our headstrong fellow determined to change the routine of his crops.

He divided his farm into twenty parts.

On one he cultivated the olive; on another the mulberry; on a third flax; he devoted the fourth to vines, the fifth to wheat, etc., etc.

Thus he succeeded in rendering himself _independent_, and furnished all his family supplies from his own farm.