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dollars! Well, that is because you have got your 
own customers.” 
I let him look over the day-book as long as he 
liked, and then asked him if he thought that, all in 
all, it did not pay to cultivate the beautiful. 
“Yaas,” he said, “if you have sense todoit. But, 
then, you have done more than that. You’ve been 
and got your customers, and you’ve suited them 
with the very finest stuff, and you’ve put yer 
weight down, where the rest of us are weak. We 
grow a big lot of stuff, and then lack a market. 
There is one more thing you’ve got — the very best 
storage cellars I ever saw. Don’t think they cost 
much more than our cellars, either. Here are 
proper bins, clean as waxed, no bad odors, a brook 
running through, solid walls, ceiled over, dark 
when you choose, easy to keep tight, and just as 
easy to ventilate. 
“Well, here it is again, croquet ground and lily 
beds, and roses blossoming in September! Can’t 
all of us go into that. But we might have more fine 
trees, and grapevines on the barns, and hollyhocks, 
and we can have windbreaks and some hedges. 
We could clean up rubbish, get rid of old waste, 
broken trees, and useless fences, and make money 
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