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long hours at it every day; but we couldn't 

 keep up. 



People began coming to see us, too; a few 

 at first, and then more and more. When 

 spring opened, on some days we'd have a score 

 of folks on the place, walking around, poking 

 into things and asking questions. Like the 

 letters, they came from everywhere from 

 every state in the Union, from Mexico and 

 Canada, and even from across the big water. 

 One man came straight from Manila to Fay- 

 etteville. They weren't merely curious; they 

 were vividly interested, for in the making of 

 this farm home they found something of their 

 own ideals wrought into tangible form. 



During that spring and summer and fall we 

 had a couple of thousand visitors. Day after 

 day we didn't try to do anything but meet them 

 and talk with them. It was very interesting, 

 very illuminating. We enjoyed every minute 

 of it. It did us good in many ways. The con- 

 crete good of it was that it brought into the 

 country around Fayetteville scores of men and 

 women who had the daring to give their desires 

 a practical try-out. In the four years that have 

 passed, two or three hundred newcomers have 

 settled hereabouts. They have made a great 



