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Show iEllery Found the Hoe Handy. On a small farm down In eastern Maine lived old Mr. N. and his son Ellery. Like most country boys, El-lory El-lory often found himself obliged to work In tho field at times when ho would have much preferred doing something else. U) Ono warm forenoon Mr. N. and El- V lery were hoeing corn, and the father, glancing around from time to tlmo, noticed that his son spent much of ,:. tho tlmo leaning on tho handle of his hoo and gazing awny across tho fields. , The old gentleman said nothing, but 'j during the noon hour ho quietly sawed , j off about half tho handle, and, chuckl- I Ing over his own shrewdness, returned to work. ' Much to his surprise, his son mado no comment on tho change, but, on looking around a llttlo later In tho j afternoon, he beheld tho hoo sticking j upright in the ground, with the Invert ed end buried In the earth and Ellery ,.j himself calmly seated on tho blade. |