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the meadowlarks. He had no lofty notion 

 of college education, and, in his own quiet, 

 kindly manner, he rather enjoyed any 

 harmless evidence of my practical ineffi- 

 ciency, but in this one instance his enjoy- 

 ment was almost rollicking, for the situ- 

 ation appealed to all his latent sense of 

 humor. Indeed, the scene, especially the 

 ensemble j was extremely comical (after- 

 ward he described it with gusto) , the bees 

 so very small and so furiously triumphant, 

 the big mower so instantly and so queerly 

 upcanted, the horses so wildly plunging, 

 and the terrified driver thrusting a dirt- 

 flecked face up out of the tangle of crum- 

 pled grass. 



PURE RELIGION 



The religious life of "Doolittle Farm" 

 was rooted in moral integrity. With the 

 utmost emphasis it should be said that the 

 place was morally sound even in little 

 things. Visiting the farm again and 

 again, for more than twenty years, I 



