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Show LEFT TO THE HIRED MAM. One Farmer Is In No Way Bothered by the Auto. "No: I can't say'as them automo-Mlos automo-Mlos bother me much," replied tho old txmg Island farmer, when the question ques-tion was put to hint. "They did bother mo for n year or two, but then I discharged dis-charged my hired man." "Hut what had liu lo do with it?" "I discharged hlin mid got another one who had the Interests of bis employer at heart." "Vos; and what?" "I left the wholu matter to him. He teemed to know Just what wus wanted ami I didii'l Interfere. Now and then I saw hint digging a ill!ch across tho road to keep tho wuter out of tfio gar-Jen, gar-Jen, uml now anil then I saw an null) ftrlko the illtcli and turn a somersault, somer-sault, but I didn't ask any questions. If thoy wanted my team to haul tho auto to town It was fio dollars. If anyone with n broken leg stopped with mo the charge was ten dollars a week. "Now and then the hired man would go out of an evening with n big coll of rope on ills back. I never nBked whether ho was going n-Hsblng or to tlo up somu row. If ho stretched it acriHS tho hlgbway, and an nuto went sailing tun feet high and ciituo down with u plump, I wasn't peeking out of the window to see. I think ho was sometimes ubM'nt-niluded nnd left tho old wagon In tho middio of tho toad of a night. I'd bo woko up by a crash and the sweailng, but I wouldn't got ' tip till some one knocked on tho door and said' that two fellers had beon smashed tn pulp. "Oh, no; llieut nkldoo machines don't worry me any. They don't worry any fnrmer who has got the head on him to pick out tho right kind of n hired man. Just let him know that you don't run to things with wheels on 'em and then Icavo him alone. It he's Sot your Interests at heart tho autos will quit coining your wny nftor out a month. They know when they've got enough." |