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it don't all come at once after draining / every 

 year tells on it." 



"You think that really is the case?" 



" Think ! I knowws it, Sir. I likes it every year 

 the better arter the draining: but I do think (you'll 

 excuse me) that you goes a little too dip with the 

 tiles : it is no use going so dip into the clay" 



" What, three feet ! Why they laugh at me for 

 draining so shallow ! If you were to see what they 

 say in those Papers I bring into the field sometimes, 

 in a morning, you wouldn't call this deep." 



" Oh ! never you listen to what them there papers 

 says, they know nothing in the 'varsal world about 

 it. They beent practical farmers as writes that 

 stuff: none o' them as writes knows any thing about 

 farming." 



"D'ye think not? Well, but now suppose I were 

 to write about the fields we have drained, and send 

 it to some of those Editor men to print and put in 

 the paper, would n't it do for somebody else to read : 

 wouldn't it be as true after it was in print as it 

 was before, when we were doing it?" 



"Oh that's a different thing, that is; 'cause of 

 course they'd believe what you say " , 



"Well, now suppose I were to put it as a sort 

 of history of this Farm, as it was, and as it is a 



