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Show count and added It up. But the biographer biog-rapher fails to notice that on the other oth-er side of the page Washington put down his winnings. His winnings were 70 pounds. That is, be was 5 pounds to the good, because, after ail, he had the fun of it and the fun must have been worth at least 10 pounds. Washington constantly Increased his holdings. He was a scientific agriculturalist agricul-turalist There Is In existence an in-terestiug in-terestiug correspondence between Washington and a man named Blox-ham, Blox-ham, whom he imported from England to be the manager of his estate. We have a letter from Bloxham telling what he thought of George Washington, Washing-ton, and almost on the same day a letter from Washington telling what he thought of Bloxham, not very complimentary com-plimentary on either side, but they came to understand each other and Bloxham lived and died in Washington's Washing-ton's service. Washington Imported the best agricultural agri-cultural implements he could hear of. He was in correspondence with Arthur Young In England, a great reformer In such matters. He introduced seeds, ha planted cuttings, he raised trees and shrubs. He was a creative farmer. At least he made a living out of the farm, and left it much more valuable than he found It Found Joy as Surveyor. Again, Washington was a surveyor by profession. He began everybody knows it at sixteen years of age in the employ of his neighbor and lifelong life-long friend, Lord Fairfax, to go out and make surveys. We have copies of those surveys. We have the original drawings he made, and the original plats. Only a day or two before he died he was out surveying a bit of property. He loved to handle the sur-veying sur-veying Instruments. He loved the exactness ex-actness of the science. |