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suppose that from ten to twelve pounds will be a fair 

 amount. 



"When the plants are well established they will be 

 improved by severe harrowing every spring, a sharp har- 

 row being used until the field looks as if it were plowed. 



Lucerne has been tried by a few cultivators in the West, 

 but by more in the East, with great success, and it lias this 

 peculiar excellence, that, thanks to its very long roots, it 

 withstands our severest droughts ; indeed our hottest and 

 dryest summers are those which it seems to delight in. 



FAMILY GOVERNMENT. 



" WILLIAM ! stop that doise, I say won't you stop ! Stop, 

 I tell you, or I'll slap your mouth." 



William bawls a little louder. 



" William, I tell you ! ain't you going to stop ? Stop I 

 say ! If you don't stop I'll whip you, sure." 



William goes up a fifth, and beats time with his heels. 



" I never saw such a child ! he's got temper enough for 

 a whole town ; I'm sure he didn't get it from me. Why 

 don't you be still ! Whist. Wh-i-st. Come, come, be still, 

 won't you ? Stop, stop, STOP, I say ! Don't you see this 

 don't you see this stick ? See here now," (cuts the air with 

 the stick). 



William, more furious, kicks very manfully at his mother 

 grows redder in the face, lets out the last note, and 

 begins to reel, and shake, and twist, in a most spiteful 

 manner. 



" Come, William ! come dear that's a darling naughty 

 William ! come, that's a good boy ; donty cry, p-o-o-r, little 

 fellow; sant ab-o-o-s-e you, sail eh! Ma's ittle man, want, 

 a piece of sooger ? Ma's little boy got cramp, p-o-o-r little 

 sick boy," etc., etc. 



