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more fiorses than he ever owned. I'd get more work 

 out of the horses if he'd let Tom drive 'em, but then 

 I'll have to do the best I can. An' then there's Tracy's 

 horses ; I'll use them m^^self , an' may be John will get 

 ashamed of himself if he don't do as much.asldo 

 with Tracy's team ; but then I promised Tracy that I 

 wouldn't use his team hard, an' if I did he would nevei; 

 forgive me. John would just be mean enough to go 

 right away an' tell Tracy if I did get a full day's work 

 out of 'em. Well, I'll just have to do the best I can, 

 but I do hate to have to work with people who have 

 such cranky notions. It's strange they can't see that 

 it pays better to work a horse for all there is in him, 

 an' when he's wore out shoot him or give him away. 

 I tell you time is worth more than horse flesh." 



Such were the thoughts of a man who was intent on 

 money getting. He forgot that the same God who 

 created him created the lower animals, and that the 

 dominion God gave him over them was a trust to be 

 executed mercifully. 



