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weather, insect pest, worn soil, lack of money to 

 secure help, and inexperience had presented prob- 

 lems for them to solve that tested their courage 

 and almost overwhelmed them. Her husband 

 knew nothing about handling farm tools and 

 horses, and she laughingly told how she had ridden 

 the horse astride, hitched to the plow, with her 

 husband a hold of the plow handles guiding the 

 plow, and she all the time fearful some one would 

 see them in this uncommon situation. But this 

 young couple had grit; they stuck, and with the 

 enthusiasm of a young child she told how they had 

 surmounted all discouragements and had made 

 them a pleasant home and had the comforts of life 

 with the freedom of country life and free from the 

 uncertainties of city life. She said they were hap- 

 pier and freer from care than they had ever been 

 and would not exchange their present condition 

 for the city life again. That each day upon their 

 little farm their difficult problems were becoming 

 less difficult. Their farm was being built up, and 

 was reciprocating for the care given it. And while 

 the author was writing this little story about the 

 young couple a letter came from the wife stating 

 that they were never more intensely interested in 

 farm life than now, and that her husband was con- 

 stantly reading farm books and that they were 

 " still the happy country kids." 



This little story also shows that many city peo- 

 ple can get back to the farm if they want to get 

 back, and that they can stay on the farm when they 

 do get back if they really want to stay. 



But every one who is contemplating getting back 

 to the land must remember that if he or she 



