Have you had any experience in agriculture practically ?" "No; I believe I have not." "Some instinct told me so," said the old gentleman, putting on his spectacles, and looking over them at me with asperity, while he folded his paper into a convenient shape.

"I wish to read you what must have made me have that instinct.

It was this editorial.

Listen, and see if it was you that wrote it: "'Turnips should never be pulled, it injures them.

It is much better to send a boy up and let him shake the tree.' "Now, what do you think of that ?--for I really suppose you wrote it ?" "Think of it?
Why, I think it is good.