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little leathery in some places in the middle o' the 

 lands, but that '11 all come right after another crop : 

 it don't all come at once after draining ; every year 

 tells on it." 



" You think that really is the case ?" 



" Think ! I knowws it, Sir. I likes it every year 

 the better arter the draining : but I do think (you '11 

 excuse me,) that you goes a little too dip with the 

 tiles : it is no use going so dip into the clay" 



" What, three feet ! Why they laugh at me for 

 draining so shallow ! If you were to see what they 

 say in those Papers I bring into the field sometimes, 

 tin a morning, you would n't call this deep."- 



1 ' Oh ! never you listen to what them there papers 

 says, they know nothing in the 'varsal world about it. 

 They beent practical farmers as writes that stuff : none 

 o' them as writes knows anything about farming." 



" D' ye think not ? Well, but now suppose I were 

 to write about the fields we have drained, and send it 

 to some of those Editor men to print and put in the 

 paper, would n't it do for somebody else to read : 

 would n't it be as true after it was in print as it was 

 before, when we were doing it?" 



"Oh that's a different thing, that is; 'cause of 

 course they'd believe what you say 



