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warrant ray doing so, I went vigorously to work, de- 

 termined to accomplish what I had undertaken, whatever 

 difficulties might present themselves. 



The results proved a decided success. That field has 

 each year yielded me a handsome return for the money 

 and labor expended upon it. Had 1 faltered, I do not 

 know that I should ever again have had courage to attack 

 such an unpromising piece of ground. It does not do 

 for a beginner to lack courage, even on a farm. He must 

 have nerve, and plenty of it, for there are few places where 

 it will be put to the test as on a farm properly conducted. 

 There must be no "old feerds" nor "young feerds," 

 as is shown in the experience of the sea captain who, 

 after many years of ocean travel, decided to give up the 

 sea, and settle upon a farm. He took with him, to his 

 farm, an old monkey he had brought with him from the 

 West Indies, a notoriously mischievous scamp. Among 

 the farm hands was a boy named John, who had re- 

 peatedly been complained of for bringing the cows home 

 too late in the evenings. Finding that his orders were 

 not obeyed, the captain impressed upon John more 

 strongly than ever, that the cows must be got home in 

 time to be milked before dark. 



"John, ai'nt you fcerd to come through the woods 

 in the dark?" he asked "Feerd ! What is feerd?" 

 inquired John. "If you don't know what feerd is, I 

 will teach you, if you don't get the cows home early 

 enough." John continued to be late, and the captain, 

 fully resolved upon carrying out his threat, started from 

 the house with a large white sheet. Arriving at the 

 woods, he took his position on a stump at a turn in the 



