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Kate waved her hand toward the distance

"Oh, merely sky, and land, and water, and trees, and birds, and

flowers, and fruit, and crops, and a few other things scarcely

worth htly "I'm not in the mood to

talk bushels, seed, and fertilization just now; but I understand

them, they are in my blood I think possibly the reason I want

two hundred acres of land forthean to

work, at about the age of four"

"But if you want land personally, why didn't you work to get it

for yourself?" asked John Jardine

"Because I happened to be the oa of my father's system,"

answered Kate

Mrs Jardine looked at her interestedly She had never mentioned

her home or parents before The older wo to talk, she did not want toto talk, for she continued: "You

see my father is land mad, and son crazy He thinks a BOY of all

the importance in the world; a GIRL of none whatever He has the

biggest fairl is worked

like a ht Each boy is worked exactly the saet plain food and plainer clothes

out of it; the boys each get two hundred acres of land, buildings

and stock, that the girls have been worked to the li personally, worthI think I

have two hundred acres of land on the brain, and I think this is