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quently hectic bloom. Even now money never 

 seems an actuality unless reckoned by its products, 

 merely being according to its volume, so much 

 food, so many plants, dogs, books, or a coveted bit 

 of land or a horse, consequently a commodity not 

 to be hoarded but to be immediately sent out to 

 fulfil its destiny. For as long as you keep money 

 it yields nothing but worry, the current rate of 

 interest being simply beneath contempt. On the 

 other hand, you buy dogs and you buy food ; one 

 eats the other, there is no waste, while satisfac- 

 tion and good company is the result. Also you 

 buy seeds and manure ; the seeds eat the manure, 

 and flowers are the results. Is not this true 

 economy ? 



Evan shakes his head at my theories, and yet 

 when I corner him, he confesses that he has some- 

 what the same feeling and that the ideal condition 

 to him would be to work for pure love of it, never 

 thinking of money, but simply by putting the hand 

 in the pocket always finding the sum necessary to 

 pay for the article purchased. 



This morning as we walked to and fro, hatless and 

 absorbing the wonderfully talmy air that father said 



