HAPPY HOLLOW FARM 283 



Hollow, and the learning hasn't been alto- 

 gether easy. Sometimes, when things are go- 

 ing right, there comes over us a sense of hearty 

 well-being that prompts us to open our hands 

 and relax our minds. Maybe you know the 

 feeling a sort of assurance that Providence 

 must certainly be helping to take care of you, 

 and that you needn't worry. Those are the 

 times when disaster is most likely to get in its 

 work. 



A banker doesn't grow genially lax and be- 

 gin to make careless loans just because he's 

 had a prosperous year. If he's a good banker, 

 he'll take a hunch from that prosperity, tighten 

 the lines, buckle his mind to his work, and so 

 make himself a better business man than be- 

 fore. 



Well, that's farming, too. That's just the 

 temper the farmer needs to cultivate with all 

 the genius he has. Successful farming is suc- 

 cessful business that's all. 



