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Show Why He Kept on Farming. Farmer Carson looked up from his search for potato bugs into the face of a former neighbor who was visiting visit-ing his old friend after an absence of ten years. "How's your son Dick getting on?" he asked, after a few preliminaries. "Dick? Oh. he's getting on first-rate; he's a sort of a doctor," said the father. fath-er. ' , "How about Arthur?" "Arthur? Oh. he's getting on all right, too. He's a sort of a lawyer.' "What's Jim doing?" he demanded. "Oli, Jim, he's doing fine; he's sort of ; preacher," said Mr. Carson, cheerfully. "A in I von keep right on here," said the old neighbor with evident regret. "Well, cr, for the present,'' said Mr. Carson, apologetically. "You see j, seems kind of advisable for some one to be sort of a farmer, and kind of feed Dick ind Arthur and Jim for another an-other ten years or so. till they get a a sort, of an income." Youth's Companion. |