“Which means that each farmer with go in him will work nights to make good — I see,” said the Gazette man. “And why not? Hundred- dollar jobs aren’t picked up for the asking. The average farmer in the United States doesn’t net fifty a month on his own land, especially when his wages of superintendence and of direct personal labor are subtracted. Of course able men will work their heads off to hold to such a proposition, and they’ll see to it that every member of the family does the same.”

“‘Tis the one objection I have to this place,” Terrence McFane, who had just joined the group, announced. “Ever one hears but the one thing — work. ‘Tis repulsive, the thought of the work, each on his twenty acres, toilin’ and moilin’, daylight