CHRONICLES OF A CLAY FARM. 



[FIKST SERIES.] 



I. 



THE WASTE. 



MUCH as may be learnt, by a willing mind, from the 

 wisdom of others, the most practical, and (shame upon 

 us !) the most attractive lessons seem always to be 

 derived from their failures. It is too late, in the 

 natural history of the "biped without feathers that 

 laughs," to stop and inquire into this little item from 

 the list of his peculiarities; so I shall take it for 

 granted in the most practical and amiable way in 

 which it can be at once assumed and applied ; and 

 like the self-devoted bird, that plucks its own breast 

 to feed the young brood, open up my early farming 

 blunders to the instructive gaze of those young and 

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