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Title: Country life reader
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Stevenson, Orlando John, 1869- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Country life. (from old catalog) Readers
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ns youmay know my condition. Give me all possible shelterfrom the hot sun, and put a blanket on me, not when Iam working but when I am standing in the cold. Neverput a frosty bit in my mouth; first warm it by holding ita moment in your hands. I try to carry you and your burdens without a murmur,and wait patiently for you long hours of the day or night.Without the power to choose my shoes or path, I some-times fall on the hard pavements which I have often prayedmight not be of wood but of such a nature as to give mea safe and sure footing. Remember that I must be readyat any moment to lose my life in your service. And, finally, O my master, when my useful strength isgone, do not turn me out to starve or freeze, or sell me tosome cruel owner, to be slowly tortured and starved todeath; but do thou, my master, take my life in the kind-est way, and your God will reward you here and hereafter.You will not consider me irreverent if I ask this in thename of Him who was born in a stable. Amen.
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His large stock demand regular attention. IN PIONEER DAYS Whatever may be said about the enjoyments of winterlife, there are few who really enjoy it so much as the farmer.His cares, however, are very numerous and his work isvaried and laborious. His large stock demand regularattention and must be fed morning and night. The grainhas to be threshed, for his cattle need the straw, and thegrain has to be got out for market. But in the early pio-neer days, threshing-machines were unknown. So, dayafter day, the farmer was forced to hammer away with theflail or spread the grain on the barn floor to be trampledout with horses. His muscular arm was the only machinehe had to rely upon; and if it did not accompHsh much,it succeeded in doing its work well and provided for all his 97 98 COUNTRY LIFE READER modest wants. Then the fanning-mill came into play toclean the grain, after which it was carried to the granary,whence again it was taken either to the mill or to themarket. Winter was also the

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