A DAY WITH MR. BURBANK 
right men, he has taken on a workman highly 
recommended to him, only to discover him 
just in the nick of time doing something that 
would result in serious, perhaps irreparable, 
harm. Indeed, more than once such harm has 
been done, and the discharged man, perhaps, 
never knew what it was that caused his re- 
lease. Possibly, if some new weather situation 
has arisen, the order of the day may at once 
be changed to meet the new conditions. 
Some of the men are pulling out tiny weeds 
in the midst of long rows of delicate green 
plants no higher than a man’s thumb; some 
are spreading some particular kind of soil 
over the earth where a test calling for this 
soil is to be begun ; some are hoeing out the 
weeds among larger plants, some are laying 
out beds, or sorting bulbs in the storehouse, 
or transplanting delicate plants from the 
greenhouse to outside beds, or any one of a 
thousand and one other duties. Every man 
is working as though his life depended upon it, 
and every one of them feels in his heart of 
hearts a strong fine throb of pride that he 
is thought capable, by the gentle man who 
goes in and out among them from day 
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