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bility of doing decent work with such an implement. 

 It was then that I sent my complaint to the Massey- 

 Harris office at Regina. They referred me to their 

 nearest agent at South Qu'Appelle, telling me that 

 he would put it in perfect order. It took a man and 

 team a full day to take it in. The agent told me 

 he knew the model which was brought out in such 

 and such a year and had proved a failure. He had 

 half a dozen of them on his hands, but had never 

 risked losing a customer over them. " It's no use 

 saying I can make it work all right when I can't/' 

 said he. " Best buy a new one ; there's a model 

 that's doing fine work in this neighbourhood." 



By "The Waters of Marah " the prophecy: 

 " She'll learn," recurred in my brain, and also the 

 fact that I had thrown away sixty-five dollars on a 

 plough that had turned over twenty-five acres of 

 summer-fallow after much persuasion, and then 

 retired from active service. After a month's trial 

 I bought a John Deere single-furrow plough of a 

 neighbour, and was so well pleased with it that I 

 bought the gang model of the same make from the 

 agents of that Yankee firm at South Qu'Appelle. 



