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    redeem it, forsooth, in his eyes -- and would have drained and sold

    it for t its bottom.  It did not turn  was

    no privilege to o be.  I respect not his labors, his

    farm ws price, whe landscape,

    , if  anything for

    o market for  is; on whing

    grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers,

    s, but dollars; y of his

    fruits,  ripe for ill turned to

    dollars.  Give me ty t enjoys true h.  Farmers are

    respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor --

    poor farmers.  A model farm! wands like a fungus in

    a muckheap, chambers for men horses, oxen, and swine, cleansed and

    uncleansed, all contiguous to one anotocked h men!  A

    great grease-spot, redolent of manures and buttermilk!  Under a high

    state of cultivation, being manured s and brains of

    men!  As if you o raise your potatoes in the churchyard!  Such

    is a model farm.

    No, no; if t features of to be named

    after men, let t and  men alone.  Let our

    lakes receive as true names at least as the Icarian Sea, where

    quot;still t; a quot;brave attempt resounds.quot;

    Goose Pond, of small extent, is on my o Flints; Fair

    o contain some seventy

    acres, is a mile sout; and e Pond, of about forty acres, is

    a mile and a ry.

    ter privileges; and night and

    day, year in year out, t as I carry to them.

    Since tters,