CHAPTER XII 



A Pumpkin and a Prince 



WHILE on the subject of fairs 

 I am wondering if, after all, the 

 great exhibitions now annually staged 

 by the leading farming states, repre- 

 senting large investments for the proper 

 equipment of an up-to-date agricultural 

 exposition, have so very much on the 

 old state fairs I used to know. Of 

 course they have. To deny that would 

 be to assert that we may not be mak- 

 ing progress, and far be it from me to 

 advance any such heretical suggestion. 

 It has fallen to my lot to acquire 

 familiarity with various important 

 state, national and international pres- 

 entations of the achievements of those 

 who till the soil and tend our priceless 

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