Gave deed of it, his wife-every man has such a wife-changed her mind and wished to keep it, and he offered me ten dollars to release him.
5 Now, to speak the truth, I had but ten cents in the world, and it surpassed my arithmetic to tell, if I was than man who had ten
cents, or who had a farm, or ten dollars, or all together. However, I let him keep the ten dollars and the farm too, for I had carried
it far enough; or rather, to be generous, I sold him the farm for just what I gave for it, an, as he was not a rich man, made him a
present of ten dollars, and still had my ten cents, and seeds, and materials for a wheelbarrow left. I found thus that I had been a
rich man without any damage to my poverty.
The speaker's attitude in this passage makes it clear that
A)
he thinks that farming is a fool's job and calling.
B)
his greatest desire in life is to stop the ownership of private property
0)
he values freedom more than being tied down by owning a farm.
D)
he is only interested in farms as long as they make lots of money.
Reading Literature
(RL.6.2) Determine A Theme