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was a great disappointment to Partridge; for he had 

 been working towards this consummation for some 

 time, devoutly wished it and considered the time oppor- 

 tune for such a move. He believed it to be of vital 

 importance to " the Cause " and its future. In October 

 he had met with an unfortunate accident, having fallen 

 from his binder and so injured His foot in the 

 machinery that amputation was necessary; he was~in 

 no condition to" undertake new and arduous duties in 

 organizing a publishing proposition as he was still 

 suffering greatly from his injury. On the verge of a 

 nervous breakdown, it required only the upsetting of 

 the plans he had cherished to make him give up 

 altogether and he resigned the editorship of the new 

 magazine after getting out the first number. 



" Fm too irritable to get along with anybody in an 

 office," he declared. " I know I'm impatient and all 

 that, boys. You'd better send for McKenzie to come in 

 from Brandon and edit the paper." 



'This suggestion of his editorial successor seemed to 

 x 'the others to be a good one ; for Koderick McKenzie had 

 been Secretary of the Manitoba Grain Growers' Asso- 

 ciation from the first and had been a prime mover in its 

 activities as well as wielding considerable influence in 

 the other two prairie provinces where he was well 

 known and appreciated. He was well posted, McKenzie. 

 So the Vice-President wired him to come down to 

 Winnipeg at once. 



Yes, he was well posted in the farming business, 

 Kod. McKenzie. He had learned it in the timber country 

 before he took to it in the land of long grass. At eleven 

 years of age he was plowing with a yoke of oxen on the 

 stump lands of Huron, helping his father to scratch a 

 living out of the bush farm for a family of nine and 



