(To a man alone on a desert island, money certainly has no value. He can buy nothing, sell nothing; he has no debts to be paid; he earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, his business is all with himself and nature, and nature expects no profit, but allows no credit, for a man must pay in work as he goes along. Crusoe had many schemes; but it took a great deal of work to carry them out; and the sum of all was steady work for twenty-five years. In the end we conclude that whatever he got was dearly bought. We come to know what a thing is worth only by measuring its value in the work which it takes to get that thing or to make it, as Crusoe did his chairs, tables, earthenware, etc.)
Questions and Notes. What is peculiar in these words: _cabin, pistols, razors, money, value, measuring, bought, barley, capful, roll, successors, desert, certainly?_ What sound has _ou_ in _journeys?_ Is this sound for _ou_ common? What rule applies to the plural of _journey?_ How else may we pronounce _lead?_ What part of speech is it there? What is the past participle of _lead?_ Is that pronounced like _lead,_ the metal? How else may _tear_ be pronounced? What does that other word mean? Find a word in the above paragraphs pronounced like _flower_. What other word pronounced like _buy? profit? sum? dear? know? ware?_ What sound has _s_ in _sugar_? Make a list of the different ways in which long _e_ is represented. What is peculiar about _goes_? Make a list of the different ways in which long _a_ is represented in the above paragraphs. What sound has _o_ in _iron_? Is _d_ silent in _edges_? What sound has _ai_ in _pairs_? What other word pronounced like this? How do you spell the fruit pronounced like _pair_? How do you spell the word for the act of taking the skin off any fruit? What sound has _u_ in _business?_ In what other word has it the same sound? Mention another word in which _ch_ has the same sound that it has in _schemes_. What other word in the above has _ai_ with the same sound that it has in _chairs_?
16. I now proceeded to choose a healthy, convenient, and pleasant spot for my home. I had chiefly to consider three things: First, air; second, shelter from the heat; third, safety from wild creatures, whether men or beasts; fourth, a view of the sea, that if God sent any ship in sight I might not lose any chance of deliverance. In the course of my search I found a little plain on the side of a rising hill, with a hollow like the entrance to a cave. Here I resolved to pitch my tent.