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"No," I said; "I've often wished we had a microscope"

"A what, Grant?"

"Microscope, sir, to look at the blight and the veins in the plants'

leaves"

"No, no; I etables and flowers are brought on early: but wait a bit"

I did wait a bit, and went on learning, getting i, and so a couple of years slipped ahen

one day I was superintending the loading of the cart after seeing that

it was properly supported with trestles Ike was seated astride one of

the large baskets as if it were a saddle, and taking off his old hat he

began to indulge in a good scratch at his head

"Lookye here," he exclai," I said, with a feeling of eagerness flashing through me

"Not you," he said slowly, as he looked down at me and seemed to measure

me with his eye as one of oes with one of the carts, and I see hi about the

as chuff as a pea on a shovel

He ain't nothing to you Co o' ht as the , for when I asked Old Brownsmith's leave he shook his