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Adventures in Contentment
·
David Grayson
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As
for
neighbours,
accept
those
nearest
at
hand;
you
will
find
them
surprisingly
human,
like
yourself.
If
you
like
them
you
will
be
surprised
to
find
how
much
they
all
like
you
(and
will
upon
occasion
lend
you
a
spring-tooth
harrow
or
a
butter
tub,
or
help
you
with
your
plowing);
but
if
you
hate
them
they
will
return
your
hatred
with
interest.
I
have
discovered
that
those
who
travel
in
pursuit
of
better
neighbours
never
find
them.
Somewhere
on
every
farm,
along
with
the
other
implements,
there
should
be
a
row
of
good
books,
which
should
not
be
allowed
to
rust
with
disuse:
a
book,
like
a
hoe,
grows
brighter
with
employment.
And
no
farm,
even
in
this
country
where
we
enjoy
the
even
balance
of
the
seasons,
rain
and
shine,
shine
and
rain,
should
be
devoid
of
that
irrigation
from
the
currents
of
the
world's
thought
which
is
so
essential
to
the
complete
life.
From
the
papers
which
the
postman
puts
in
the
box
flow
the
true
waters
of
civilisation.
You
will
find
within
their
columns
how
to
be
good
or
how
to
make
pies:
you
will
get
out
of
them
what
you
look
for!
And
finally,
down
the
road
from
your
farm,
so
that
you
can
hear
the
bell
on
Sunday
mornings,
there
should
be
a
little
church.
It
will
do
you
good
even
though,
like
me,
you
do
not
often
attend.
It's
a
sort
of
Ark
of
the
Covenant;
and
when
you
get
to
it,
you
will
find
therein
the
True
Spirit--if
you
take
it
with
you
when
you
leave
home.
Of
course
you
will
look
for
good
land
and
comfortable
buildings
when
you
buy
your
farm:
they
are,
indeed,
prime
requisites.
I
have
put
them
last
for
the
reason
that
they
are
so
often
first.
I
have
observed,
however,
that
the
joy
of
the
farmer
is
by
no
means
in
proportion
to
the
area
of
his
arable
land.
It
is
often
a
nice
matter
to
decide
between
acres
and
contentment:
men
perish
from
too
much
as
well
as
from
too
little.
And
if
it
be
possible
there
should
be
a
long
table
in
the
dining-room
and
little
chairs
around
it,
and
small
beds
upstairs,
and
young
voices
calling
at
their
play
in
the
fields--if
it
be
possible.
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