The old farmer and his almanack : being some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago suggested by reading the earlier numbers of MrRobert BThomas's Farmer's Almanack, together with extracts curious, instructive and entertaining as well as a variety of miscellaneous matter . use of the character ofthe number of the Almanac we now present, rather than from anypromises we might make, that we hope for your continued confi-dence and support, for It is by our works and not by our words we would be judged :these we hope will sustain us in the humble though proud stationwe
The old farmer and his almanack : being some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago suggested by reading the earlier numbers of MrRobert BThomas's Farmer's Almanack, together with extracts curious, instructive and entertaining as well as a variety of miscellaneous matter . use of the character ofthe number of the Almanac we now present, rather than from anypromises we might make, that we hope for your continued confi-dence and support, for It is by our works and not by our words we would be judged :these we hope will sustain us in the humble though proud stationwe have so long . . Rob*. B. Thomas. 1 The sentence quoted from Mr. Thomas first appears in the Almanac for1836, where it is preceded by the quietly humorous phrase, Notwithstand-ing our customary professions. 77/E Lno. FARMERS ALMANACK. Cdcutaud on a «w and improved Plan,FOR THE YEAH OF OUR LORD - 1795 Being the chirdafter Leap VearVand Nineteenth of the Inde-pendence^ to tbttvwx ofBoJton, Sat ivitt fervt for any tf the adjoining Containing, bettdes .theiantevnumber of AftronomicalCajco&tion*, and Farmers Cailendar for every month in theyear, as great arvartety as any other Almanack, of New, Ufeful, and Entertaining Matter* ?—MiwB* ROBERT B. Rail, feature • fotsMoin iaexS*«ftible ;TbT rififcg and dwayidjj fceots: a bcavep,With band unerring, turns th« Went fphetei*And in rotation bring? the. feafons round. for JOSEPH BELKNAP, DockSquait,\and THOMAS HALL, mStatt-Sltm. Sold by them, bythe Author and M^JStrnth/^frtZrog, and by the 4C/. a-Crcwj—4*. * Date* —6p J«ig£. THE OLD FARMER AND HIS COR-RESPONDENTS MR. THOMAS is never more entertaining than inhis replies to his numerous correspondents. HisAlmanac became popular so rapidly that, al-most from the outset, he received all sorts of material frominterested readers, — poems, anecdotes, and puzzles, ob-servations on agriculture, jests, riddles, mathemati
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