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tion for their houses, still they are 

 highly favored, and, with the multi- 

 tude of their blessings, this can be 

 overlooked. For out here, on these 

 quiet November days, all can think if 

 they wish. It is a joy to let the rush 

 go by the train, the trolley car, the 

 automobile and jog on slowly over 

 the farm lands, out to the cornfields, 

 into the orchard and back again with 

 the wagon filled with the long yellow 

 or the round red. At every trip the 

 crib grows fuller, and the cellar bin 

 is heaped higher. 



Thus, in the autumn days, to be 

 leisurely and purposefully gathering 

 and storing away the real corn and 

 fruit, makes more unreal and sense- 

 less the mad rush on that so-called 

 market where men who would hardly 

 know an ear of corn from an apple 



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