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to desire when he has only to wait instead of working 

 for it." Having to calculate the probable expense of re- 

 shingling his hog-pen he did not waste envelopes and 

 wear out his mind trying to figure up the result to be 

 expected from the wood-lot experiment, but determined 

 simply to wait. He too is waiting still, not having found 

 out that the cattle are dead. 



"SEE THE FARMER SOW HIS SEED." 



Said another: "Two bushels of seed are enough for 

 my field, but I have other things to do than to scatter it, 

 and moreover the wind and the rain do that and every 

 living thing from the chick just hatched to Old Scratch 

 himself takes a dig at what I plant, so I will just empty 

 the sack in the middle of the field and save myself much 

 work." 



But the harvest was slender, for lo! most of the field 

 had no seed and where the seed was the plants crowded 

 one another to death. 



THE ROUNDUP. 



The season being come a ranchman went forth with 

 his helpers to drag home by the tail his cattle and 

 calves. But many difficulties arose and progress was 

 slow. So he said, "Nay let us rather build a corral at 

 the spring and when the cattle come to drink we will 

 shut them in." And they did so and gathered them all 

 without tearing up the turf and without damage to any 

 tails. And an honest fish farmer, seeing, said to himself, 

 I will gather my stock where they wish to be and will 

 no longer set myself in array against them. But be- 

 cause they did not go down to the spring to drink he 

 must find other causes and times and places for their 

 gathering, and when he had found them he shut them in. 

 V erbium sat sapienti. 



