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Show Good Management. A Masacliusctts mnn, driving through N'cV Hampshire, pulled up his horse to chntwitlin farmer about crops. Home ot tho old man's remarks woro spiced with humor nnd somo of them, the totttiat declares, were nlmost ns good ns n sermon. "My corn's dono fiut-rntc," the farmer said, cheerfully. "An I nin't n-goin to take no credit for supplyin' tho preacher's folks with it, mithcr. Somo sny I'm too frechnnded but I tell 'em It nin't gen'rosily, It's jest common senso nnd forehaudediicHS. I tell 'cm uiy pirnclicr's pntcli is wutlt moro to me'ii lis tothopienchcrhlmsclt, Why, I c-M'Into It's hnUn' of thnt pntcli Hint's keep' my whole Hold n-golu' tcr tho Inst the jenrs." "Where is your preachers pntch HituntDilV" inquired tho stranger, with pnrdoiutble ehrlxl'y. "llight thero I.l the middle o' (be Held," was tlio reply. "Any special reason for having it just in tlio mlddlp?" usl: ho stranger " Will, yen," said Hie fanner, with n twlnklo in Ills eye. "Ye see, Hint's whero my Iniig-hcndcdiieBS comes in strnuger. It elands to reason the Lot d nln' n-goiu' to let tho preacher suffer .in' I never nee folks that set so by coin ;ts his do an' so I icckoncd tliat when Ho was a-pervldln' rain an' sunshine o'er tho preacher's patch by bavin of it right sl.iytn the nilddlo ot both tlicm de-drablo Ingrejlint'i to keep tho rcBt o' tlio lluld a golu' nn no harm doiu I" And witiiigluontnusci)eiit vjcnpt what appeared In his bilglit old e.tos t' o (aimer turned tho coiurisalloii to the slate of politics In Hew Hampshire. Ytulh'i Cuuipiinlon. |