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dollars! Well, that is because you have got your 

 own customers." 



I let him look over the day-book as long as he 

 liked, and then asked him if he thought that, all in 

 all, it did not pay to cultivate the beautiful. 

 " Yaas," he said, " if you have sense to do it. But, 

 then, you have done more than that. You've been 

 and got your customers, and you've suited them 

 with the very finest stuff, and you've put yer 

 weight down, where the rest of us are weak. We 

 grow a big lot of stuff, and then lack a market. 

 There is one more thing you've got — the very best 

 storage cellars I ever saw. Don't think they cost 

 much more than our cellars, either. Here are 

 proper bins, clean as waxed, no bad odors, a brook 

 running through, solid walls, ceiled over, dark 

 when you choose, easy to keep tight, and just as 

 easy to ventilate. 



"Well, here it is again, croquet ground and lily 

 beds, and roses blossoming in September! Can't 

 all of us go into that. But we might have more fine 

 trees, and grapevines on the barns, and hollyhocks, 

 and we can have windbreaks and some hedges. 

 We could clean up rubbish, get rid of old waste, 

 broken trees, and useless fences, and make money 



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