- WE PLAT THE FARM 53 
I am thankful for seven years of it, and look for- 
ward to twice seven more. I have lost the soft- 
ness which nearly wilted me that 5th day of 
August, and with the softness has gone twenty 
r thirty pounds of useless flesh. I am hard, 
tive, and strong for a man of sixty, and I can 
do a fair day’s work. To tell the truth, I prefer 
e moderate work that falls to the lot of the 
eadman, rather than the more strenuous life of 
- husbandman; but I find an infinite deal 
thank the farm for in health and physical 
comfort. 
