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"That is so, in a sense," Festing dryly agreed. "It looks as if my job was to get tired and wet and dirty while others got the dollars; but it's a job with different sides. Farming's as much a part of it as this, and has very similar disadvantages."
He's a farmer and he lives miles away from anywhere." "But I'm going in for farming." "You are? What on earth for?" "I've jolly well got to do something," said Hornby with momentary gloom, "and I think farming's about the best thing I can do. One gets a lot of shooting and riding yon know. And then there are tennis parties and dances. And you make a pot of money, there's no doubt about that."
"I'm not accustomed to that sort of job, you know." "It would be a good chance for you to begin to learn something of business." "Well, you see, farming's my business. And I don't think I'm a fool at that. But building speculations and so on " Bob shook his head again. The progressive man gazed in wonder at the stationary. "You've no desire for for a broader sphere?" he asked.
When the crop escapes drought and frost, and there's no hail or rust, western farming's fairly profitable." "In short," said Jernyngham, "you have made up your mind not to come home with us." "I'm sorry it is so," Cyril responded gravely. "Try to understand. If I stay here, we will be good friends and you will think well of me. If I go home there will be trouble and regret for you.
A rough life and the pounding of bad weather had fewer terrors for him than an office in town, with constant exposure to human personalities. "Have you tried him on malted milk?" he asked, when Claude had told him how Farming's nourishment was threatened. "Dr. Trueman hasn't a bottle left. How long do you figure we'll be at sea?" "Four days; possibly five."
She always favored me more than her father." This statement was not difficult to believe, for Hiram at that moment looked as if he had never smiled in his life. He sat silent throughout the meal, but Mrs. Bartlett talked quite enough for two. "Well, for my part," she said, "I don't know what farming's coming to!
He would work for an object he was likely to gain, but if disappointed, regretted the exertions he had made, and refused, with humorous logic, to be stirred to fresh effort. "I'm not convinced that farming's my particular duty," he once said. "When I plow it's in the expectation of cashing the elevator warrants for the grain.
But she was content to let Miss Jardine lead the talk. "One understands," said the latter, "that farming's laborious and not very profitable work." "It's always laborious," Festing agreed. "It may be profitable; that depends. You see "
But that's in favor of college, I think; don't you?" Mrs. Owen answered her own question with a laugh; and having opened the subject she went on to disclose her opinions further. "I guess I'm too old to be one of these new women we're hearing so much about. Even farming's got to be a science, and it keeps me hustling to learn what the new words mean in the agricultural papers.
"Farming's a better life. Don't you think so, dad?" "It's better for me, Rod," answered Uncle Jim, "it's better for me." Rodney was a little uneasy. "But won't it be better for me?" he asked. "Mebbe," was the slow answer, "mebbe, mebbe so." "And then there's mother, she's getting too old for the work, ain't she?" "She's done it straight along," answered the old man, "straight along till now."
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