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it don't all come at once arter 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 (no 

 offence,) that you goes a little too dip with the tiles : 

 it is no use going sa 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 

 in a morning, you wouldn't call this deep.' 



' Oh ! never you listen to what them there paapers 

 says : they knows 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, wouldn't it do for somebody else to read : 

 wouldn'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 



* Well, now suppose I were to put it as a sort of 

 history of this Farm, as it was, and as it is, a sort 



