V. 



COMBINATION AND COMMINUTION. 



THERE are some incidental points of practice at- 

 tendant upon the drainage of a field, which give 

 very little uneasiness to a beginner, but which, 

 like many of the other realities of life, gain force 

 with further experience. A blessed thing in its 

 way is the untamed boldness of Youth. It gets 

 done many things in this cautious, calculating old 

 world, which, if not done then, would never be 

 done at all, and which, whether useful for their 

 striking goodness, or useful for their striking badness, 

 afford equally profitable employment to that large 

 and self-respected portion of the community whose 

 business and pleasure lies in contentedly criticising 

 the errors that others have made, in the charitable 

 spirit of 



"the fiend that never spoke before, 

 But cries ' I warned you,' when the deed is o'er." 



