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Excerpt from The Saloon Under the Searchlight
AN old Tennessee farmer fenced in a garden to provide vegetables for his household. A large stump stood in the centre of the enclosure. For years this'stump was a great source of annoyance in tilling the garden. The plow would hang in its roots, foul weeds would grow about it, and nothing useful would flourish near it. The Old farmer stood the annoyance for years. At last, irritated by the nuisance, he called his boys to bring their grubbing-axes and dig around the stump. He then threw a log-chain about it, hitched a team of splendid mules to it - the roots cracked, the dirt flew, and the old stump was pulled out by the roots and thrown from the garden. The ground was levelled, and that spot brought forth abundantly the useful products for the food of the family. When the farmer saw his first crop growing where the Old stump stood, he said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
