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buy and sell that which has never 

 been grown and never will be. Some 

 there are on the market who have 

 known the country, and such a com- 

 mentary they present on human 

 weakness. That any man who has 

 once been near to the soil the source 

 of strength should leave it for the 

 market the abode of weakness is 

 more than can be understood in a 

 moment. It is one of those contrasts 

 which life brings to our attention, 

 whereby we learn that man is prone 

 to idiocy from the beginning. On the 

 market, frantic to buy or sell, rich 

 to-day and a pauper to-morrow so far 

 as dollars are concerned, pauper all 

 the while so far as productivity and 

 service are concerned; on the farm 

 lands, leisurely working with nature, 

 whose pay is slow, but ever increas- 



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