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lonely roads and lanes, and at the bottom of dells in 

 the wood. Now that they have grafted trees, and pay 

 a price for them, they collect them into a plat by their 

 houses, and fence them in, and the end of it all will 

 be that we shall be compelled to look for our apples in 

 a barrel. 



This is &quot; The word of the Lord that came to Joel 

 the son of Pethuel. 



&quot; Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhab 

 itants of the land ! Hath this been in your days, or 

 even in the days of your fathers ? . . . 



&quot; That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the 

 locust eaten ; and that which the locust hath left hath 

 the canker-worm eaten ; and that which the canker- 

 worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten. 



&quot; Awake, ye drunkards, and weep ! and howl, all 

 ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine ! for it 

 is cut off from your mouth. 



&quot; For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, 

 and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a 

 lion, and he hath the cheek-teeth of a great lion. 



&quot; He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig- 

 tree ; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away ; 

 the branches thereof are made white. . . . 



&quot; Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen ! howl, O ye 

 vine-dressers ! . . . 



&quot; The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languisheth ; 

 the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the ap 

 ple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered : 

 because joy is withered away from the sons of men.&quot; 1 

 1 JOEL, chapter i., verses 1-12. 



