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tunities for and incitements to migration and re- 

 location are so multiform and powerful. Doubt- 

 less, M. de Boissiere will be often tried by stam- 

 pedes of his volunteer associates, who, after the 

 novelty of cooperative effort has worn off, -will 

 find life on his domain too tame and humdrum for 

 their excitable and high-strung natures. I trust, 

 however, that he will persevere through every dis- 

 couragement, and triumph over every obstacle ; that 

 the right men for associates will gradually gather 

 about him; that his enterprise and devotion will 

 at length be crowned by a signal and inspiring suc- 

 cess ; and that thousands will be awakened by it to a 

 larger and nobler conception of the mission of In- 

 dustry, and the possibilities of achievement which 

 stud the path of simple, honest, faithful, persistent 

 Work. 



XLIII. 



FARMERS' CLUBS. 



FARMERS, like other men, divide naturally into two 

 classes those who do too much work, and those who 

 do too little. I know men who are no farmers at all, 

 only by virtue of the fact that each of them inherited, 

 or somehow acquired, a farm, and have since lived 

 upon and out of it, in good part upon that which it 

 could not help producing they not doing so much as 



