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Glad you still manifest an interest in the “Garner- 
ings” and hope you will never lose it.— B. M. H.: 
Your name does not appear among the February 
solvers, and this omission makes the list look un¬ 
familiar. Hoped you would report every month. 
Good friends are always missed.— Lamps: Your 
budget of puzzles has now given out; and, like 
“Oliver Twist,” we are anxious for “more.” Can’t 
you send us one somsthing similar to No. 25 in the 
November issue?— Sphinx: Always glad to have the 
bright luminaries represented in this department; 
consequently, we cordially greet yon. Now that you 
have sent solutions and taken the first prize, we hope 
you will send us a budget of your good puzzles.— 
C. H. P.: Your contributions are very fine; one 
appears in the next number and more will follow.— 
Puzzlers and Solvers : May you all have a happy and 
I 10 I 3 ' Easter and be blessed with health an^l happiness. 
F. S. F. 
“THAT FIELD OF KANSAS CORN.” 
[The feelings of those who plant seeds of any 
kind of vegetables or grain, which has been bronght 
from a locality far south of that in which it is plant¬ 
ed, are pretty accurately depicted in the following 
little sketch which we clip from the American Ele¬ 
vator:] 
A farmer leaned on a wayside fence, 
The picture of sorrow and care, 
While near was a field of Kansas corn 
That had grown in luxury there. 
Had the breeze which fanned his sun-burnt cheek, 
And tangled his silvery hair 
Been seeking a disappointed face, 
It would surely have found it there. 
“It was planted,” said he, “on fall broke ground 
On the very first day of May, 
And was up and harrowed and rolled 
Before Decoration Day. 
And of all the promi-ing prospects 
I’ve seen since I was born, 
There was none that ever equaled 
That field of Kansas corn. 
“By the last of June it was eight feet high, 
And growing with all its might, 
And sending out brace roots all around, 
With everything looking right. 
But somehow or other, toward August 
We thought it a little queer 
That over that whole blessed cornfield 
The tassels didn’t appear. 
“But still it just kept on growing 
As if in a tropical clime, 
With all etbrnity before it, 
Instead of a breath of time. 
It was earing the first of September 
With the same slow, moping ways, 
And was froze along in October, 
In the ‘melancholy days.’ 
“And we who had watched it all summer, 
And graded it number two, 
Dropped back to the grade rejected 
And were willing to let that do. 
But alas for our expectations! 
The fruit of that Kansas seed 
Was wholly unfit for market, 
And hardly fit for feed. 
“I’ve worked,” said the farmer, “all my life, 
And I’ve tried to be resigned 
To all the troubles that came along. 
At least of a farming kind; 
But of all the blows that have come to me 
Since the day that I was born, 
The nearest that’s come to busting me 
Was that crop of Kansas corn.” 
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