246 TRANSPLANTING INDIAN CORN. [PA RT II. 



" Corn now?" I asked Mr. MITCHELL whether 

 he did not think I should have won the wager. 

 " Why, I do not know, indeed," said he, " as to 

 " the two first planted rows." 



219. On the 10th of September, Mr. JUDGE 

 LAWRENCE, in company with a young gentle 

 man, saw the Corn. He examined the ears, 

 'Said that they were well-filled, and the grains 

 large. He made some calculations as to the 

 amount of the crop. I think he agreed with me, 

 that it would be at the rate of about forty 

 bushels to the acre. All that now remained 

 was to harvest the Corn, in a few weeks' time, 

 to shell, to weigh it ; and to obtain a couple of 

 rows of equal length of every neighbour sur 

 rounding me ; and then, make the comparison, 

 the triumphant result of which I anticipated 

 with so much certainty, that my impatience for 

 the harvest exceeded in degree the heat of the 

 weather, though that continued broiling hot. 

 That very night! the night following the day 

 when Mr. JUDGE LAWRENCE saw the Corn, 

 eight or nine steers and heifers leaped, or 

 broke, into my pasture from the road, kindly 

 poked down the fence of the field to take with 

 them four oxen of my own which had their 

 heads tied down, and in they all went just 

 upon the transplanted Corn, of which they left 

 neither ear nor stem, except about two bushels 



