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"Have you been soheat long?"

"Why, sir, it was you taught us the year before last You gave

ht bushels and sowed a rood"

"Well,towards

his horse, "and keep an eye on Mishka And if there's a good

crop you shall have half a rouble for every acre"

"Humbly thankful We are very well content, sir, as it is"

Levin got on his horse and rode towards the field where was last

year's clover, and the one which was ploughed ready for the

spring corn

The crop of clover conificent It

had survived everything, and stood up vividly green through the