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tion by the world’s brilliant thinkers some¬ 
where nearly commensurate with its im¬ 
portance. In spite of the hard physical 
labor, he enjoyed tremendously the sev¬ 
eral days spent in helping the Squire get 
in his enormous hay crop, for grass was 
the Squire’s biggest specialty, and he 
never tired of discussing the fine points of 
its cultivation with any one who could talk 
intelligently on the subject. 
Of course not everything went smooth¬ 
ly. In spite of Mantell’s care, the potato 
bugs got a big start in the large potato 
field. No one had told him how rapidly 
they could develop and while all his atten¬ 
tion was taken up getting in the late corn, 
they did an amount of damage which 
probably equaled any profits to be gained 
from the corn fodder. As soon as the in¬ 
vaders were discovered they were reported 
by Robert and Helen, with no little excite¬ 
ment and exaggeration. The ever-gener- 
ous Squire was called upon for help. He 
had only a dry powder gun, and said it 
would be no use to use it until the next 
morning while the dew was on. This did 
not suit Mantell, however, as he could 
see that another day’s damage would 
double that already done by the fat, 
greedy “slugs.” So the Squire gave him 
a note to a neighbor who possessed a 
“knapsack” sprayer, which fortunately 
he was able to get. While Mantell was 
getting the sprayer. Raffles and Robert 
and Helen procured two rain barrels and 
the stone-boat from the Squire, and got 
one barrel ready of the “soup,” as the 
young folks called it, for the bugs. Man¬ 
tell, with Helen to help him refill the tank 
without removing it from his shoulders, 
did the spraying, and Raffles and Robert 
drew water, a half-barrel at a time, mixed 
the poison, and replenished the “soup” 
barrel. After the first half acre, Mantell 
and Raffles changed places, and again 
after each succeeding half acre, so that 
the field was covered in record time. By 
the afternoon they had the satisfaction of 
seeing many scores of little toes turned 
heavenward in the furrows and around 
the stables, and the potato crop was saved. 
The winter squash they were not so 
fortunate with. These seemed to be do¬ 
ing splendidly, and had attained lengths 
of from six to ten feet, after great pains 
had been taken to fight off the big black 
squash bugs — -when suddenly they began 
to droop and die in the middle of the day. 
“The borers have got us,” said Raffles 
helplessly. 
One by one the robust-looking vines 
“went down,” and in three days hardly a 
one was left. It was disheartening, and 
in the stem of each could be found a large, 
white, soft grub, which had done the 
damage. Robert gathered up the vines, 
each day, and deposited them in the hen 
yard, where retaliation was meted upon 
the miserable intruders, but that was small 
redress for the harm done. 
While the Squire’s teams had been 
busy with Mantell’s and his own haying, 
his potatoes had not been cultivated, and 
the day that Mantell was hunting up a 
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