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favorable for the work, and we let our ambi- 

 tion run away with us, lightly taking it for 

 granted that we'd be able to keep the new acre- 

 age in cultivation. There was no time to move 

 the stone before spring plowing; we haven't 

 found time for it yet; so that ten acre patch 

 has "gone back" to brush. The clearing will 

 have to be done over again before the land can 

 be used. There's a loss of fifty dollars charge- 

 able to bad judgment. 



Two years ago we put down a drilled well, 

 fifty feet deep, to furnish water for the stables. 

 When we were setting the pump we dropped 

 the valve and a length of pipe down the tube. 

 We had no grappling tool handy, so we turned 

 to other work till we might get one. That 

 pipe is still down there, waiting, and we're 

 still watering horses and cattle unhandily. In 

 the two years we've lost solid days of time on 

 account of that carelessness ; and there's an in- 

 vestment of seventy-five dollars that hasn't 

 done us a speck of good so far. We've grown 

 accustomed now to having that well out of com- 

 mission. We'll get to it one of these days. It 

 ought to have been attended to right off the 

 reel. 



Gates break down, and we think there isn't 



