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be one day better understood to continue it 

 thus : 



' You would give honour to the toiler and the 

 toil that are employed in carrying out the bounteous 

 designs of Providence for man, in subduing, ferti- 

 lizing, and beautifying the spot of earth on which 

 his lot is cast. You would ask why for thousands 

 of years we have crowned the Warrior with Laurels, 

 the Poet with Ivy, the Citizen with mural emblem, 

 and the Husbandman with nothing. You would 

 ask why his achievements are without record and his 

 name without honour ; and his only reward that 

 which is to be found in the words of the bitter 

 satirist: " Laudatur, etalget /" 



' Eheu! quantus equis, quantus erat viris 

 Sudor!' 



