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so here on the farm ; for here one has the full round 

 of life's chores, and here, on a professor's salary, one 

 may do all the chores himself. 



We may hire our praying and our thinking done 

 for us and still live ; but not our chores. They are to 

 the life of the spirit what breathing and eating and 

 sleeping are to the life of the body. Not to feed your 

 own horse is to miss the finest joy of having a horse, 

 the friendship of the noble creature ; not to "pick 

 up" the eggs yourself, nor hoe your own garden, nor 

 play with your own boys ! Why, what is the use of 

 having boys if you are never going to be "it " again, 

 if you are not to be a boy once more along with 

 them! 



There are some things, the making of our clothes, 

 perhaps, that we must hire done for us. But clothes 

 are not primitive and essential ; they are accidental, 

 an adjunct, a necessary adjunct, it may be, but be- 

 longing to a different category from children, gar- 

 dens, domestic animals, and a domestic home. And 

 yet, how much less cloth we should need, and what 

 a saving, too, of life's selvage, could we return to the 

 spinning-wheel and loom as we go back to the farm 

 and the daily chores ! 



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