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turned out wet and cold, and the wheat did not fill 

 well ; there was but a small produce from it, though 

 before harvest it looked pretty well ; and this, with the 

 great fall of price, quite prevented him from doing what 

 he had expected. But another gale was now due, and 

 Tim's heart began to misgive him, that he should be 

 unable to recover himself ; he began to grow careless 

 and indifferent ; and to give up struggling as he formerly 

 had done. He must sell his cow. Even this way, he 

 was only able to pay one half-year's rent, but he again 

 got time for the rest, though every one plainly saw that 

 he had no means of meeting the gale, which would be 

 coming due the next summer. Tim and his family saw 

 this too ; and though they still hoped something might 

 be done for them, yet never in their lives had they 

 passed such a miserable winter. They had no heart for 

 anything, and to add to their troubles, their potatoes 

 (I told you before some of them were not worth digging) 

 ran short, and they were obliged to buy for the family, 

 and so spent the little money they had been gathering 

 against the rent. 



But let us turn from this painful picture to Tim's 

 neighbour Pat. What has he been doing all this time ] 

 Pat had been farming on quite a different plan. Just 

 before Tim took his farm, Pat's father had died, and his 

 landlord had given Pat the farm. Pat's father had left 

 him much in the same circumstances as Tim was in, 

 but then he had left a good sum of money as fortunes 

 to his two sisters. Pat knew he must one day pay this, 

 and it weighed him down very much. Just upon his 

 father's death, his landlord had been advising his tenants 

 to sow clover and turnips, as a means of improving their 

 condition, and had told them a good deal of the great 



