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The beauty of the sight held hiemmed with yellow cat-like eyes that floated past wary and curious in their regard for hiht up the rear They were short, broad, swarthy men, black-eyed, vivid-faced, contemplative and philosophic of expression They pulled off their hats and ducked their heads to hi fro the rim of his Baden Powell in seain, he held her with a touch of rein and threat of spur, and gazed after the four-footed silk that filled the road with shinificance of their presence The tiht down from their brush-pastures to the brood-pens and shelters for jealous care and generous feed through the period of increase And as he gazed, in his , was a vision of all the best of Turkish and South African mohair he had ever seen, and his flock bore the coood
He rode on Fro whir ofhills, he saw team after team, and many teams, three to a tea the plows back and forth across, contour-plowing, turning the green sod of the hillsides to the rich dark brown of huanic and friable that it would alravity into fine-particled seed-bed That was for the corn--and sorghu for his silos Other hill-slopes, in the due course of his rotation, were knee-high in barley; and still other slopes were showing the good green of burr clover and Canada pea
Everywhere about hied in a system of accessibility and workability that would have warmed the heart of the ht and bull-proof, and no weeds grew in the shelters of the fences Many of the level fields were in alfalfa Others, following the rotations, bore crops planted the previous fall, or were in preparation for the spring-planting Still others, close to the brood barns and pens, were being grazed by rotund Shropshire and French-Merino ewes, or were being hogged off by white Gargantuan brood-sows that brought a flash of pleasure in his eyes as he rode past and gazed
He rode through as ale, save that there were neither shops nor hotels The houses were bungalows, substantial, pleasing to the eye, each set in theroses, were out and s at the threat of late frost Children were already astir, laughing and playing a called in to breakfast by their mothers