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out to see TV hat was going on. Jack was holding a large 

 flat basket, while Robert was carefully prying up the 

 potato sets with a flat stick. He was obliged to be very 

 careful, as the small shoots that had started from the eyes 

 were very tender and brittle. At first many of them were 

 broken in handling ; but he soon learned to dig them up 

 without injury. When the bottom of the basket was 

 covered they started for the field, and I after them. First 

 the boy stirred up the soil, then my hus*band opened the 

 ground with his hands, scattered a little guano through the 

 soil, and taking one of the potato-plants carefully set it in 

 the ground, leaving the green tips just showing through the 

 soil. As for me, I carried the basket. In about two hours 

 we had finished the work, leaving the plants three feet 

 apart each way. 



Several showers passed over while we were busy, but we 

 let it rain. For my own part, I rather liked it. It was a 

 novel sensation to be out in the rain with no umbrella. 

 What would our city friends have said if they had seen us ? 

 It is true, my dress became fearfully soiled ; but it was an 

 old affair and could be easily washed. Just as we were 

 going to dinner I looked back over the newly planted field. 

 It seemed very thinly occupied, and appeared wasteful as 

 far as space was concerned. 



" Can we not grow something between the potatoes, Rob- 



