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get one horse of neighbor Hurst over there, and that 
with two of yours will make a splendid breaking 
team.” 
“ But who is going to run it for you?” 
“Well, you see, Tom, these are beautiful moon- 
light nights—almost as light as day—and I can just 
as well as not run my plow till about midnight if [ 
have another team.” 
‘ But you can’t stand it to work that way, Jim. 
You'll break down.” 
“Tom, my wife and two children are back there in 
Illinois, in that httle house on Col. Worthington’s 
farm, and I want to get them out here with me, in 
our own house on our own land, just as soou as pos- 
sible. I can get all the breaking I can do besides my 
own, and it pays well at $3 an acre; but you know 
the breaking season is rather short, so I am going 
to work nights. It will enable me the sooner to 
send for my wife and the children.” 
ANNIE AND THE BABIES. 
And for weeks Jim Hardy drove that breaking 
team of his till midnight six nights in the week. 
Such a man ought to succeed—and will. He broke 
fifty acres of his own land, and over thirty for his 
neighbors for which he received more than a hundred 
dollars in cash. He planted twenty-five acres of his 
breaking in potatoes, fifteen in flax and ten in oats, 
and at the time [ write this, (July, 1883) his erops 
all look well. [f I were going to make an estimate 
