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obliged to draw it into the yard to make 

 room for the second crop, which had al- 

 ready begun to peer above its drenched 

 predecessor reminding one of the French- 

 man in the late Charles Matthew's comic 

 tale, "whose hair grew a little above his 

 hat." 



My wheat I did not gather till the last 

 week in September, arid that not till 

 after a long and expensive time, with all 

 my Lent corn, in the damaged condition I 

 have stated. 



We had had a most propitious spring 

 everything looked well on the farm, the 

 crops of corn most luxuriant, and the 

 cattle sheep I had but few having no 

 summer food, in a thriving condition : 

 among them three thorough-bred mares, 

 two by Haphazard, the other by Buzzard, 

 and a splendid grey two-years old colt, 

 by Evander, which, with another yearling 

 colt, by Trophonius, entered in a hundred 



