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CHESAPEAKE AND Ono RAILRoAD-JRoN
ORE.-A correspondent of tho Kanawha Re-
publican writing from Ceredo, Wayne coun-
ty, says:
"Work on the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
road has commenced at Ceredo. A contract
for grading one mile from Ceredo towards
he cast was awarded to Plymale & Kelley,
If Wayne county, and they began the work
last week, and this week put on large
number Of hands, with teams. Of course
it ia not like the whole work being let, as
we suppose it will be soon, but it inspires
confidence in the enterprise, and encour-
ages some who have been respondent and
doubtful"
The same correspondent writes:
"Banks of iron ore Of the best quality
have been discovered in the hills two miles
asc& of Ceredo. Some Of the veins are less
than thousand yards from Big Sandy
river. where the ore can be easily hauled
and tloatcd down on fat-boats to the fur
naccs below. Some has been sent down,
and all Of It is eagerly purchased by the
rurnacemen at the highest market prices.
Bat this il not the best VIC are hoping for
from these discoveries. 1t is believed fur
naceS will he put up here when all the adj
rantages Of the location and the great
abundance Of the rich ere are fully realized
by parties interested. When the furnaces
IRE established, and the railroad depot and
machine shops erected here, you will get
more news items from tn section"
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VERDICT AGAINST THE BALTIMORE AND
ONO HALRoAD.-HerI York, January -.
1Ae case OF Goodwin Us. The Baltimore and
OHIO Railroad Company, in which damages
were claimed for loss OF property in transit,
was decided to-day in favor of the plaintiff,
with damages in full
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Cattle Market.

The cattle and sheep markets of New York
have both fallen Oft about half Il cent per
pound, while hogs are entirely nominal, rs the
receipts are small that the demand cannot
br sunplirI
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Railroad Accident.

SAVANNAH, Ga, January 1.-THE pas
seDger train on the Atlantic and Georgia
railroad ran off the track eighteen miles
from here. Five cars were badly damaged.
No lives were lost.
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HEAVY ROBBERY n CANADA.-S. Catha-
rlne'S, Dat, January l2.--Ihe Bank Of
Montreal was entered by burglars last
night, the safe blown open, and robbed of
$4,000 in Canada legal-tender notes.
Bqtato, January l2.-Ibe burglars who
rohoed the Bank Of Montreal, at 81. Catha-
rno'5, were IL this county this morning.
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Mayor Thomas, of St. Louis, who has
come reputation for eccentricity, in recent
o4c'al communication complains that his
private residence, which should have been
%stcssed at $!2,c GOO, was assessed at only
$3.50.
A popular organist in New York gets Sl90
Tor performing at fashionable weddings.
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DICHMOND LYING-IN CHARITY FOR
IL
THE RELIEF OF INDECENT WOMEN
AT THEIR OWN HOMES.

DR.. 2. 3. WATKINS, Fifth and Grace streets !;
DIR. Z. ). J. PEBBLES, zoe Franklin street;
De. !. K. PAGE 400 Franklin street.
have organized this institution, and VIII iurnlsn
medical attendance ut her own home 70 any woman
who NAV bring a written certificate, endorsing Ter
as proper object OF this charity, from any pnysi-
clan. minister, member OF any benevolent ASSOC
ciaiion or member OF the city government.
Special attention will be given to all FEMALE
DISEASES.
CONSULTING PHYSICIANS.
DR.. r. Il. ueane, DIR. John A. Cunningham, DIR.
4. sncad, Professor K. I. Coleman, and Profess
nor q. Y. Manson. de 3S-3m
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.steaynbna: ExDl0sion-FIve Killed
and twenty-five Wounded-ste.In-


New ORLEANS, January 1.-the stern
wheel steamer Glide, hence for Red river,
ran aground and exploded at midnight last
night about fifty miles above the city. The
wreck was burned, and the boat and cargo
was total loss. Five or six persons were
killed or died OF scalds, and about twenty
five were injurei--several Of them fatally.
The steamers J. G. Blackford and Thomas
Powell reached the scene in about twenty
minutes, and rescued the survivors, who
were brought to this city by the Governor
Allen.
The Governor Allen also brought the
officers and crew of the stern-Theel steam
boat Idahoc, which sunk in the Ouachita
river on Sunday. The boat and cargo are
total loss, but no lives were lost.
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Prizo.Fighs.
End of the Japanese Civil War.

SAN Francisco, January l3.-Later adj
vices from Japan say the civil war is con-
oidarpd over
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SwrwEEcKED PEKsoNs RESCUED. -Nel7
York, january l2.-The agents OF the An
caor line u steamers in this city have re-
cclTed the following dispatch:
" G.&golc, january l2.-rhe Bremen
bark America, for New York, was spoken
On DeccmAar %0,h. She had thirty-nine
s1ipwreckrd persons on board. We have
reason % believe that they are the Hiber-
mas people saved from the missing
1y4t-."
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GREECE.

PARIS, January l3-It is stated that
Rangabe, the present ambassador at Paris
from Greece, has been recalled 10 preside
over the ministry.
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Sr. LOUIS, January l3.-Tom Allen
whipped Bill Davis in the ring yesterday
n forty-two rounds.
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F0REEGE NEWS.

AUSTRIA THREAT FROM BISMARCK.
VIENNA, January l3.-The Vienna Post,
the official organ, says that Bismarck told
the Austrian minister al Berlin that the re-
tention Of Won Buast in oftice would pro-
woke serious action on the part Of Prussia.
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ORR FRUIT AND TRUCKING FARMs.-We
have been favored by the secretary of our
Pathological Society with the following ex-
hib.t of the various productions of the
fruit aud trucking farms il the neighbor-
acod of our city during the past year
which have been sent fror his port to the
northern market: GOO ,013 nlskets straw
berries; $4,000 barrels :, toes 10000
barrels peas 10000 barr: snaps; ESQ.,
900 heads cabbage 20,00J oarrels eucum-
ners 100000 boxes tomatcc5 5000 bar
rels squashcs; 1000 barrels beets; 30, 900
punches radIshes; 100000 cantelopes
$4,000 watcrmelons. The estimated value
received FOR the above is 81 ,043,2O0. This
calculation, it will be observed, does not
include what has been received from the
sale Of apples, pears, plums, cherries, ETC.,
which would probably amount to $25, 900
more.-Norfok Journal.
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Decision OF Heavy Cotton Case
against the government.

New YORK, January l3.--The LeHinson
cotton case, involving 81 100000, has been
decided, the verdict being against the Gu
vernment.
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ZINE ROLL BUTTER, $1,000 pounds
~ ROLL and PACKED BUTTER; 3 600 pounds
RUCKWHEAT FLOUR.
ial DhNDRlD6T & ANDERSON.
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0n0 BARRELS FLOUR, all grades, for
AVO sale by
PALMER, HARTSOOK & CO.,
Agent for Ficken 4 Willians's Refined Sugars.
lie
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DICHMOED GRANITE COMPANY
i l. We are prepared To furnish the very best
quality GkAEicE, dressed or undressed In any
quantity. We win also build all kinds or dhAN-
TIE WORK nj short notice. Special attention
given 10 rough dressed WALL WORK, GENIE.
TEtsY WORK, &c, and all material furnished.
Once corner oI Canal and Seventh streets.
GEORGE BLUMkETHkL,
&c ls-sm Superintendent
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AGRICULTURAL.
BLOWS AND PLOW-CAsTINGS.

We remind the farmers and planters who read
the Dispatch that we we large stock OF the most
popuia. FLOWS IN use, snd can supply any de-
mand Tor the following--yz..
GULLI S. CAST TEL PLOW,
MUHAWXV VALLEY, CLPPER STEEL PLOW,
sTAKSE'5 "DiEtG ; PLUW,
WATTS NEW Flow,
MINOR & HORTUN, LIvISGsTOE COMPA-
NY, and other patterns.
We can supply farmers and the trade with
smooth. well-fttLg, and tough ChSIlNG5 for all
the above on tll= most liberal terms
lal33t H. 81 SMITH 4 co.
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ERESH VENISON.- Twenty very supe-
[ rlor SADDLES vESIsON; afy nicely
trimmed HAMS VESIsON.
iaI DtNDRIDGE Il ANDERSON.
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rO-PARTNE RSHIP.- The undersigned
Y J have formed q co-partnership under the firm
and style OF HILL 4 DiCKIE for the purpose Of
conducting a CENTRAL COMMISSION BUs!-
NESS at Nos 1925 and las Cary street Richmond,
Va n. b. HILL,
alIm J. II. DICK1E.
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GAIT, SALT, SALT.-50O sacks MAR
y STALLS LIVERPOOL SALT for sale from
ROBERT + WILLIAMS l. co.
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Emigration.

The suhjoined table shows the number
of Irish and German emigrants whOhave
been landed i'm New York during the
last ten wears.
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HOME.

There is something i'm the wopI home
thatawakens the kindliest feelings Ofthc
heart. tits nOtmerely friends and kind
red that render that place so dear; but
the very hills and rocks and rivulCts
throwa charm around the place Ofman's
nativity.
1t is nOwonder that the loftiest harpS
have been tuned to sing of 'hOme sweet
hOme.N The rose that blOOmCd i'm the
garden where one has wandered i'm early
years q thOughtless child, careless i'm in
nOCpnce, is lovely in its bloom, and love
lier in its decay.
No songs are sweet like those we heard
among the hOughS that shade q parents
dwelling, when the morning end even
ing hour found us as gay rs the birds
that warble over Us.
No waters are bright like the cIcarsiI-
yer streams that wind among the flower
deckpd knobs where in childhood We,
have often Strayed to pluck the violet.
or the lily, or to wind a garland for some
loved SChOOlmate.
We may wander away, and mingIc
in the "wOrld's fierce strife, " and form
new associations and friendships, and
fancy we have almost forgotten the land
Of our birth: but at some evening hour.
0s we listen perchanCe to the autumn
wind, the remembrance of other davS
come over our soul, aud fancy bears ItS
back to childhOOd's scenes, and we roam
again to the old familiar hauntS, and
press the hand Of companions long since
cold i'm the grave, and listen To voices
we shall hear ON earth no more.
1t is then feeling of melancholy
steals over us, which, like OsSian'S mu-
sic, is pleasant though mouruful 70 the
soul.
The Swiss General who leads his ar
my into a foreign land must not suffer
the sweet airs ofTyroleSe tobe sung To
the soldiers; for at the thrilling sound
they will leave camp and lly away To
their own green hills.
How does the heart Of the w0udrrrr
after long years of absence, beat and his
eyes fill, rs he catches u glimpse of the
hills of his nativity, when ne has press
ed the lips of a mother or sister, how
soon does he hasten 90 see ifthc garden
and theOrchard and the stream, look as
it did i'm days gone by. We may find
climates rs beautiful skies as bright
and friends as devoted; bpt that will
not usurp the place of home,
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COniurOrs Pistol Trick.

The sad fate of DR.. Epstein, the Paris
COniuTOr, who was wounded by Il SDlin-
ter of a ramrOd discharged from his own
cOniuring pistol, Says the London Or
chestra) what Robert HOUdin has insis-
ted upon in his bOOk-that magicians
possess no ordinary bravery to stand be-
fore the muZZle of Il pistol, knowing
how slight a mischance may bring them
face to face with death. HOudin him
self used to play with danger with an
entirely needless assurance. He relates
ling fire-aTm tricks before a party of
Arabians, making use, of course, of the
ordinary form of cOnjuring pistol, which
is so cOntTived that the ramrOd withdaws
the bullet. While the rest Of the party
were expressing their admiration, a
crafty old NarabOut, who had some sUs-
piciOn Of the true nature Of the trick,
said: ''The strange" is do IbtleSS a strong
magician; will he suffer me to fire at
him with my own pistol ~ ''Yes,"
said HOHdin, UnhPsitatinglv; "but first I
must make invocation to those who as
sist me-"
The next day he met the same party,
and offered q saucerful of bullets to the
inspection Of the MarabOut Satisfied
that they We're lead-as indeed they
Were-the Arab handed his pistols to
HOudin, who loaded them, using the
Arabs ramrOd His own friends were
in terror, and even his wife, well as she
knew his skill, was in perplexity when
she saw him hand back to the Arab one
of the loaded pistols Now fire. he
said The Arab did so, and HOudin was
seen with the bullet between his teeth
"Bah ~ he said. seiZing the other pistol
'yOu cannot use your own weapons.
See here. You have been unable to
draw blood from my flesh, and I will
draw blood from yOnder wall" He
aimed at the wall, fired, and immediate
Iy a stain of blood was seen. The Mara
bout went up to the wall, and when he
dipped his finger in the blood which was
trickling down, his awe and amazement |
were so great that his features assumed |
a CHASTITY hue. Yet the trick was sim
pie enough, two prepared bullets having
been sllillfully substituted by Houdin |
for the Ieaden bullets he took up from
the saucer. But the experiment was
quite new, and HOudin tells us that he
and could scarcely control his |
terror, as he saw the Marabout drawing
the trigger of the pistol.
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INSECTS.
BY z. D. REEFY, N. D.

| PEA WEEvIL (By7ch1ts Psi. Reader
| the next time you have a dish of peas
| set before YOU just stop for q moment
| and cOnsiler that in almost each pea
| you will find young pea weevil. At
tAr this consideration, you will, in all
! probability, not consider the dish so in
viting, unless you are an advocate OF
Dlired diet. Were it generally known
that almost every pea has n worm in it
the pea market would materially depre-
ciate. There are but two persons that
are generally acquainted with the de-
structive effects of the pea weeviI-these
are the gardener and the clerk i'm the
seed store. Outside of these two indi-
viduals, people know but little about the
pea weevil, since they only see the pea
when it is served up when the weeviI is
small. In its mature state, the pea
weevil is a small oval bug, measuring
about One-tenth of an inch in length. 1t
is Ofa brown color with white spots on the
wing covers. The mature bug can al
ways he found among seed peas, or Of
ten in the pea itself The pea weeviI
deposits its eggs shortly after the flower
ing of the pea. There is first an incis-
ion made into the skin of the pod OppO-
site each pea, and in each inciSiOn there
Is ueDOSilttl buJ At SluElV GEGs lIlt III
cisiOn becomes instantly Obliterated by
the growth of the pod, and when the egg
matches, which takes place in two weeks
after the deposit, the young grub which
is produced Immediately perfOrates the
pod and enters the pea, upon which it
subsists in preparing for the subsequent
transformations, which will finally pro-
duce the bug we so frequently see among
our Seeding peas in the spring of the
year. The grub is white, and has no
legs. We are surprised to find all of
our seed peas mere shells when we come
to plant them, and wOnderhOw it is pos
sible that this bug has penetrated the
poke i'm which the peas are kept with
out making a hole. Thefact is, the peas
had the germ of the bug in it when the
peas were put in the poke. Over one
half of the peas that are now served up
on the table as q deliCacy of Of the sea-
son contain one Of these little white
grubS that will ultimately produce a pea
bug There is but one way to protect
your pea crops, and that is to stretch
over the plants a thin netting, which
will keep the bug away.-Ey'iu CoHSti-
fUtj0U0liSf.
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What is a Tear.

| The principal element of tear is wa.
| ter This water, upon dissolution, con-
tains Il few hundredth parts ofsubstance
called mUcUs, and Il small portion OF
salt, OfsOda, of phosphate of lime and of
phosphate of soda. 1t Is the salt and
the soda that give to tears that pDithet
of "Saltn ut the hand of the Greek poets
and that of ''bitter" Mt that of ours.
Salt is however the more correct term of
the two. When Il tear dries, the water
evapOrates and leaves behind it depOs-
it Ofthe salineingredients. These ANAL
gamate, and as seen through the micro
scope, array themselves i'm long, crossed
lines, which look like diminutive fish
bones.
Tears are secreted by a gland called
the lachrymal gland which is situated
above the eyeball and underneath the
upper eyelid, on the side nearest the
temple. Six or seven fine channels flow
from it along and under the surface of
the eyClid, disCharging their contents a
little above the delicate cartilage which
supports the lid. 1t is these channels
or canals that carry the tears into the
eye. But tears do not flow only at GER
tain moments and under certain cir
cumstanceS, as might be supposed; their
flow is continuous. All day and night
although less abundantIy during slcep)
they trickIe softly from their slender
sIuices, and spread glistening over the
surface of the pupil and eycball, giving
giving them that bright enamel and
limpid look which is one of the charac-
tcristic signs of health.
lt is the CCaSClCsS movement and con-
tracing of the eyelid that effect the reg
lar spreading of the tears; and the flow
of these has need TO be constantly re-
newed in the way just mentioned, be-
cause tears not only Cvaporatc after a
few seconds, but also are carried away
through two little drains, called lachry-
NAL points, and situated i'm the corner of
the eye near the nose. Thus all tears,
after leaving the cyclids, flow into the
nostrils.- Chambers Journal.
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CUriOsities of Sleep.

In Turkey, if a man falls asleep in
the neighbOThOOd of poppy field, and
the wind blows toward him, he becomes
narcOtized, and would die if the country
people, who are well acquainted with
the circumstances, did not bring
him to the next stream or well, and
empty pitchers of water OH his face and
body. DR.. Appenheim, during his resi-
dencC in Turkey, owed his life to this
simple and et1icaciOus treatmnnt.
DR.. Graves, from whom this anecdOte
is quoted, also reports the caseOf q gen
tleman, thirty-five years of age, who
from long continued slCepinCss, was re-
duccd to a complete sllele ton, unable to
stand on his legs. 1t was partly owing
to disease, but chiefly to the abuse of
opium, until at last unable to pursue his
business, he sunk into abiect poverty
and woe DR.. Reid mentions friend of
his, who when anything occurred to dis
dress him, soon became drowSy, and fell
asleep.
A student at Edinburg, upon hearing
of the unexpected death of a near Tela-
tive, threw himself on a bed, and almost
instantancOusly, amid the glare of noon
day, sank into q profound Slumber. An
other person, reading to one of his dear
tSb IltllNlSg SllNlttltAl vi HIS utilIll ltil
fell fast asleep, and with the book still
i'll his hand, went on reading, utterly
unconscious of what he was doing.
a woman at Hamadt slept seventeen
or eighteen hours day for fifteen years.
Another is reported so have sIeptOnce
for four days. DR.: Nancise mentions a
woman who spent three fourths of her
life in sleep; and DR.. ElliOtsOn quotes
the case Of a young lady who slept for
six weeks and recovered.
Thr venerable st. Augustine, of Hip
po, prudently divided his hours into
three parts--cight to be devoted to sleep,
eight to meditation and eight to converse
with the world. Maniacs are reported,
particularly in the Eastern hemisphere,
to become furiously vigilant during the
full of the moon, more especially when
the deteriOutng rays of its pOIariZcd
lights are permitted to fall into their
apartment, hence the name of lunatics.
There certainly is greater proneness to
disease during sleep than I'm the waking
state, for those who pass the night i'm the
Campagna di Roma inevitably become
affected with the uOXiOus air, while tray
elcrs who go through without stopping
escape the miasma. Intense cold prOdu-
ces sleep, and those who perish i'm the
snow sleep on till sleep changes into
death.
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r 4l09g SLOTS.
NUMBER VI.
BY LADY GAY.
INFRINGEMENT.

RETRENCHMENT
1 wonder if every woman who has,
like myself, committed matrimony, and
by so doing become the so called mistress
of a house and family; I wonder if every
married woman knows as we'll as 7 do
the significant meaning of that one word
retreHchmenE Hive on from day today,
and see Mrs. c dress in the extreme of
fashion. I see Mrs. H. and her daugh-
ters indulging their taste, and enjoying
the good things of this world apparently
mmolested, while I have it sounded in
my ears bymy yhusband, when at athome)
verbally, and (if absent) by letter, "re-
trenchment' until the very sky above
me, with its myriads of bright worlds
seem to echo 'sretrenchment.' The
fields around me, and the trees. have
written upon them ''rctrencHnlent" The
very air breathe, as the sleepy god over
powers me whispers retrenchment' and
when I wake in the morning, the SUMS
rays as they stretch across the face Of the
broad green earth form themselves into
the word "retrenchmeut;U upon every
blade Of grass, OH every grain of sand,
even in the very Goals of fire as they
flame and sparkle now before me crackIe
"retreRchmeHt, until my soul turns
sick at the sound! haveripped up old
garments, turned them upside down,
and wrong side up, altered, basted, sew
ed, and made rag carpets and would-be
hearth rugs out of scraps that were left,
and by all the clever ingenuity that wo-
man is capable of, economized, twisted,
screwed this way and that, to evade store
accounts, in short, have exhausted every
means to live OH nothing until have
arrived to the point where "fOrbearance
ceases to be a virtue" and the harder
I work, the less credit get for it, and
the louder have it dinged into my ears
the same old sound "retrcncBHcnt;;D I
wonder ifthcre is a man in the world,
who never complains because he has to
support his wife and children? I'll knew
that there was one, would hunt him
until found him, and that moment I
would pOUnce him, and go directly to
Barnum and strikeUpa negotiation, and
carry the "natural curiosity around
and by showing him at twenty-five cents
| a sightmake a fortune that would enable
me tOlie down and get one good nights
sleep, uninterrupted by that odious,
/ tantalizing confOunded word err
/ TRENCHNENTI'
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Mr.. Clark twenty-five years ago there
was not a hundred dollars choice be-
tween the two"
We walked up to the top of quite a
high hill and looked down on the two
farms. One with its beautiful mansion,
numerous and we'll kept OUt-buildings
and acres of lUXuriant vegetation, with
the tall woods on one side and gently
flowing river ON the other, formed a
beautiful picture l shall never forget.
The home of the other looked barren
and poor, no creeping vines and sway
ing branches brOke3Off the dTeariness of
the aspect; the fields were. under only
moderate cultivation, positive thrift was
nowhere discernible. A large, heavy
man was idly smoking in the open door,
and an untidy looking woman was draw
ing a heavy bucket of water from the
well by an Old-faShiOned windlaSS.
There are two ways to live" " and my
friend, as we gave the farms a last look,
and the lives of these two cousins fur
nish a good illustration. One has work
ed and HOUght, while the other has only
wOTked.u
How are the farmer boys intending to
do who may chance to read this simple
story?