except may be a little for a boy to drive one team when we haul two
loads at a time; and we don't use seaweed for potatoes. The corn
crop will generally more'n pay for it and the fertilizer too; and
the seaweed helps for three or four years, especially for grass.
There's good profit in potatoes, too, when we get a crop, but
they're risky, considering the money we have to pay for fertilizer."






CHAPTER XXVIII

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AFTER leaving Rhode Island, Percy spent two days in and about
Boston, and then returned to Connecticut for a day. The weather had
turned cold; the ground had frozen and the falling snow reminded him
that it was the day before Thanksgiving.

From New London he took a night boat to New York, and then took
passage on a Coast Line vessel from New York to Norfolk.

The weather had cleared and the wind decreased until it was scarcely
greater than the speed of the ship.