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EASIER TO WORK OUR OWN LAND. 
“My wife and 1 have talked that over a good many 
times, and she is really more anxious to go than I am, 
if there is any difference. We shall probably both 
he a little homesick at first, and we expectsome hard- 
ships and privations, and so will not be disappointed 
when they come. Neighbors and schools and 
churches will all come in time. And we don’t think 
it will be quite so hard to do the same amount of 
work on our own land, as it is here on that which we 
don’t own, and can never expect to.” 
SOME FRIENDLY REGRETS. 
‘Pardon me, Tom, but I think you are making a 
serious mistake, and that’s why I am so earnest in 
this matter. It may seem to be none of my busi- 
ness, but you know we've been neighbors, boy and 
man, twenty years or more, and I can’t see you make 
such a mistake without using what influence | 
may have to try and prevent it. And just about all 
your friends are of the same opinion,” 
“Are they? What do they say about it?” 
“Well, I was talking to Squire McCreary last 
evening, and he thinks you'll be back here in less 
than two years, a good deal poorer than you are now. 
He thinks that between the drouth and the grasshop- 
pers you can’t raise enough out there to live on. And 
John Richards came up just then, and said if he 
were as comfortably fixed as you are, he wouldn't 
pull up and go to Dakota for the best section of land 
