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mor'n half that's told of em. One of them came and settled 

 round here a few years ago and tried Bass-raising, just as 

 you proposed ; but, then, he was a poor shote of a fellow, and 

 his farm soon drank him up, or he it, I don't remem- 

 ber exactly which. Besides you have a kind of manure 

 which he did not have. He used plenty of the barn-stuff, 

 but you seem to use more yet, and in addition put on to 

 your land a better manure still, brains." 



