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Show GAVE SONS GOOD ADVICE. Canadian Farmer's Words Quaint, but Ideas Excellent. nov. W. S. Ralnsford of Now York fishes every summer In tho Canadian salmon rivers and from tho quaint peoplo whom ho moots In out-of-the-way Canadian places ho brings homo many wise saws and sayings. "And old farmer," ho said recently, "urged his sons In my hearing to ho up ami doing. It was night, and wo sat about a big log fire, the farmer In tho middle, where tho firelight fell waverlngly upon him, tho sons In tho shadow on the right, and I in tho shadow on tho left. M,llo energetic, hoys,' said tho old mnn. Hustle and push if ye want to get along. Don't ye over spcckllnte, nnd, ahovo all, don't yo ever wait for suthin' to turn up. As for waltln' for suthln' to turn up, why, yo mout Jest as woll go and set down on a rock In tho mlddlo of the medder, with n pall ntwlxt yer legs, and wait for a cow to hack up to ye to bo milked.' " |