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supporters saw nothing but gloom ahead. Soon 

 after the weevils had been discovered, entomologists 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture 

 came and studied the pests. Cotton saw them 

 busily working day after day, night after night ; 

 they never made any noise and they would not talk. 

 One day when Cotton was talking to Corn he said : 

 "I never felt so bad. I always thought that I was 

 so strong that I had nothing to fear, but I tell you 

 I am being beaten by those pests, and nobody can 

 help me." 



"Go easy," answered Corn; " those entomologists 

 are at work, and they are the men who will get you 

 out of this trouble if anybody on earth can do it." 



"I don't know about that," Cotton replied. 

 " Those men are too quiet ; they will not talk. Oh, 

 I admit they are busy enough, but why don't they 

 talk and tell us something. I have no faith in them. 

 Other men come around and they make speeches 

 and the people cheer them, and I think that they 

 will help me if anybody can." 



"Don't you pay any attention to those speech- 

 makers. This is not the time for speech-making. 

 It is wasting breath. Those entomologists are 

 members of the staff of Dr. Science, and I have end- 

 less faith in the old Doctor. You have not had 

 enough experience with him to know ; he has his 

 men work slowly and carefully, and they say noth- 



