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funds has not cramped me and troubled me in my work either; " 

 and a pleasant look on his face impressed me with the thought 

 that a spirit of thankfulness to the great Giver above was in his 

 heart as well as mine, and gave an added enjoyment to his 

 work. 



We bade adieu to that pleasant home. The surrounding 

 homes for quite a little distance seemed to have caught friend 

 Terry's spirit, for they were well-to-do, progressive farmers ; 

 but the potato-fields right over the fence from friend Terry's 

 were as different from his as any thing you could well imagine. 

 Notwithstanding this, they were rather better than any thing 

 we had seen in our drive of 25 miles across the country. I 

 looked in vain on this side of the road and that, but no such 

 farming greeted us anywhere as we saw there.* 



We took a different route home. You never see me going 

 the same road twice, if I can avoid it. At Cuyahoga Falls we 

 called on the veteran strawberry-man, Mr. Matthew Crawford. 

 Friend C.'s whole business is strawberries not raising them 

 for the market, but testing the different varieties, and raising 

 plants for sale. I saw something there which I had never seen 

 anywhere else, and perhaps I shall never see it again little 

 beds of two or three rows, of all the kinds of strawberries 

 known. In some places great luscious berries were rotting on 

 the ground. When I remonstrated, he said so many were com- 

 ing daily to discuss the different varieties that he left a few so 

 as to be able, during the season, to furnish specimens of dead- 

 ripe fruit. I mentioned ever so many kinds I had heard of, 

 but I was promptly led to the very variety in question, where I 

 saw it doing its best. Friend Crawford is a devoted, faithful 

 Christian. In fact, it shines forth in his face, looks, and ac- 



* Later. Since our visit I have received the following on a postal, fi om 

 friend Terry : 



Well, it dried off Saturday, so we sold 10 bushels of berries, $26 00 ; and 

 Monday 13 bushels, $36 55. Not quite so thick to-day, but we got a bushel 

 of Gaudy's Prize, that sold for $4.00. I had a photo taken. The Gandy 

 will not hold out long. T. B. TBRRY. 



Hudson, O., June 24. 



