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three years preceding. As a rule under all good ditches there is 

 water enough in the winter to avoid this, and if water cannot be re- 

 servoired cheap enough above ground the next best thing is to store 

 in this subterranean reservoir all that the requirements of good drain- 

 age will allow. Some have dore this in the past winter, -but there 

 have been too many who have allowed this source of wealth to run to 

 the ocean because they believed the capricious clouds would do their 

 duty. 



THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 

 A fanner \va s trying to plough 

 With a jackass hitched up to a congh, 

 When they kicked up a terrible rough. 

 Saul the farmer: "It's hard, I allough 

 I could do near as well with a sough; 

 I will rest 'neath the shade of this" botigh ; 



' 'Such driving for me is too rough ; 

 I've had of it nearly enough ; 

 I'll give this old jackass a cough 

 And quit, for I'm quite in a hough, 

 And ploughing is almighty tough. 



"With farming I'm glad to be through 

 My wife, she is tired of it, tough ; 

 "We're wet with the rain and the dough, 

 And ploughing has made me quite blough. 



"I'll sell out and pocket the dough, 



To the city I'll glad enough go; 



I'll through down the shovel and hough; 



In Wall street my money I'll blough. 



'My wife has contracted a cough, 

 Tis time for us both to be ough!" 



New York Sun. 



