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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The Agricultural Meeting?Wild Birds and their Nests? The Little Doctor and the Sparrows in his Umbrella ?The Fox's Home?The Gamekeeper and his Dead Pets. WHAT do you think of this new agricultural society, Tom ? Any of your men going to it ? What does the squire say about it, eh ? Mrs. Strong here observed: I am sorry to tell you, Mr. Dobbs, that Tom and his landlord have had a few words about this forthcoming agricultural gathering. I think it very unwise of him, and Squire Fairplay was, I know, very vexed about it. However, I have persuaded Tom to let John Lingwood go to the ploughing match; and OldJemmy was entered for a prize for long service, but nothing will induce the old stupid to go and receive it. He is as headstrong as his master; but Tom will tell you all about it. Tom won't, replied Mr. Strong. You've begun the tale. You go on with it. You're talking just as your fancy guides you. What do you know about it, I should like to know ? No petticoat government for me. If I do go to the meeting, I sha'n't hold my tongue. Agricultural meetings are simply a ' get-up, ' formed for a lot of blockheads to go there and tell the landed proprietors what they don't know. Why, of course, if the likes of us get up and talk to educated men, as to what we can grow, and what we can make of it, and what we can breed, what do you think they are going to do, but make calculations of our profits and then up goes the rent. Besides, it will open the eyes of a lot more of those retired tradesmen, and there will be more competition for farms than ever. I should like to know what a grocer wouldTHE AGRICULTURAL MEETING. 65 say, if we asked him to tell us how he mixed his tea, and what profit he got out of it. It isn't as if it could do any good either, for it ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217997232
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 40
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217997236
  • Publisher Date: 05 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 91 gr


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