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greater the effect of the manure : of that I'm certain 

 sure ; large as I like to see the clods on a fallow." 



" I was afraid you would have taken the other side 

 of the question on that point/' said I, " on which a 

 good objection may be taken, and answered, too; 

 and which we must not omit : but it was not because 

 I had said my say out, that I came to a pause ; but 

 rather because I felt that there was still so much un- 

 said, and I am too tired to say it now, and you to 

 listen to it, I should think. Come, it 's no use deny- 

 ing it. We must adjourn. Besides, I want to hear 

 your objections. I know they '11 rise thick and three- 

 fold, when you 've left me. When shall I hear them ; 

 to-morrow ?" 



" To-morrow let it be with all my heart ! I doubt 

 you've given me a bad nightcap, though ! When I 

 get a subject of this sort into my head, it sings in 

 my ears half the night : and when at last I do go to 

 sleep, I dream of it till I 'wake again. Well ! ' In 

 for a penny/ as they say : so I shall be glad to hear 

 it out. Maybe you '11 finish it to-morrow. I don't 

 think I shall ever look at a plough again without 

 thinking of you !" 



And Mr. Greening took his departure ; not more 

 busily impregnated with a new subject than he left me 



