MAGAZINE WRITER'S CONCEPTION 



24 bushels of seed at $.60 144° 



Help in digging, etc 4.00 



Total $3440 



Returns : 



25 bu. of potatoes at $.90 $22.50 



Radishes 1 .00 



Tomatoes 90 



Total $24.40 



Loss 10.00 



$34.40 



THE MAGAZINE WRITER'S CONCEPTION OF NATURE-STUDY 



"The only time when Bennie-Boy seemed to participate in 

 affairs to the slightest degree was purely by accident, and then 

 his participation was not cheerfully active, but was as tiresomely 

 passive as all the rest had been — with his mates, he listened to a 

 'nature talk.' It consisted chiefly in harrowing disclosures about 

 the private life of a cow — how she reared up a beautiful bossy- 

 infant for herself and manufactured milk for it, chewing early 

 and late, only to have both infant and commissary thieved from 

 her (though — it was amelioratingly explained — the cow had not 

 real maternal love, only instinct, which was the very identical same 

 thing except that it wasn't) — how she was tortured by flies, 

 ofttimes by thirst — and how finally she exchanged her integral 

 existence upon the grassy verdure of sylvan fields for a sectional 

 distribution upon the hooks of a meat market. 



"The nature talk over, the others had to draw quadrilateral 

 cows upon their slates, but Bennie-Boy, not having this article, 

 having — as the song says — 'no place, no part, no dwelling more 

 by sea or shore,' very sensibly went to sleep and let society 

 giddy whirl without him, as it fully intended to do, and was 

 competent of doing." — From "His Place in the Line," by Marion 

 Hill, in American Magazine, July, 1910. 



