I remain, Your faithful friend, and most obedient servant, WM. COBBETT.
[1] 4s. 6d. English, equal to one dollar.
[2] 2d. English, equal to four cents, nearly.
[3] The above items may be converted into United States' money by reckoning 4s. 6d. to the dollar: Thus As 4_s._ 6_d._ : 1 dollar :: 11_l._ 7_s._ 2_d._ : 50 dollars 48 cents.
[4] To convert these sums into United States' money, see page 16.
[5] All the calculations in this work, it must be remembered, are in English money but may be turned into United States' money as before directed, page 16.
[6] Be sure, now, _before you go any further_, to go to the end of the book, and there read about MANGLE WURZLE. Be _sure_ to do this. And there read also about COBBETT'S CORN. Be sure to do this before you go any further.
[7] To me the following has happened within the last year. A young man, in the country, had agreed to be my servant; but it was found _that he could not milk_; and the bargain was set aside. About a month afterwards a young man, who said he was _a farmer's son_, and who came from Herefordshire, offered himself to me at Kensington. "_Can you milk?_" He could not; but _would learn_! Ay, but in the learning, he might _dry up my cows_! What a shame to the _parents_ of these young men! Both of them were in _want of employment_. The latter had come more than a hundred miles in _search of work_; and here he was left to hunger still, and to be exposed to all sorts of ills, because he _could not milk_.
[9] The father of the present Sir Robert Peel, who gained his fortune as a cotton weaver by the help of machinery.
[10] Editors of the London Times Newspaper.
Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).
Footnote marker 4 is not in the original text.
Some quotation marks are not matched in the original. Obvious errors have been silently matched, while those requiring interpretation have been left unmatched.
The following misprints have been corrected: "it" corrected to "is" (page 26) "whorthy" corrected to "worthy" (page 51) "bady" corrected to "bad" (page 68) "buln of the hatch" corrected to "bulk of the batch" (page 119) "the the" corrected to "the" (page 123) "abuudant" corrected to "abundant" (page 126) "pig's" corrected to "pigs" (index) "Chancollor" corrected to "Chancellor" (Part 2, page 47) "Chanceller" corrected to "Chancellor" (Part 2, page 47) "Amecan" corrected to "American" (Part 2, page 55)