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ter than a hundred. Do you reckon we can 

 doit?" 



Sam grinned again, with the frank delight 

 he always shows in any sort of a challenge. 

 "I'll go you!" he said. "We'll never quit till 

 we've done it!" 



And that's the way it stood with us on the 

 corn proposition after our second crop was 

 gathered. We were undertaking to get nine 

 times as much grain to the acre as the tenant 

 had harvested! I wonder if the gods of sun 

 and wind and rain didn't chuckle quietly as 

 they harkened to that impudent defi of ours. 



