The farm-yard club of Jotham: . ut ignorant of the trials which were to beset their path. The schoolmaster had but little to -say, and Clara had less. But when he suggested to her that he should always be happy to hear from her, and that a correspondence between master and pupil might be of mutual benefit to both, and she, as if brought suddenly to a sense of her obligations, assured him that she should write to him as often as Dr. Parker thought proper, he realized the trial which lay in wait for him, and watched to see her uprising consciousness of the sorrow which always springs from a doub
The farm-yard club of Jotham: . ut ignorant of the trials which were to beset their path. The schoolmaster had but little to -say, and Clara had less. But when he suggested to her that he should always be happy to hear from her, and that a correspondence between master and pupil might be of mutual benefit to both, and she, as if brought suddenly to a sense of her obligations, assured him that she should write to him as often as Dr. Parker thought proper, he realized the trial which lay in wait for him, and watched to see her uprising consciousness of the sorrow which always springs from a double allegiance to duty and love. To both there came in an instant the sudden and blinding revelation, and they separated, with an inward consciousness that the time would come when the scales would fall from their eyes. What it all meant they hardly knew. But they realized that some one stood between them, and they had a vague dread of what time might unfold to them. And so they parted ; and so they grew old and wise in an CLARA BELL. 120 THE FARM-YARD CLUB OF JOTHAM. When the school was closed and the schoolmaster wasgone, John Thomas turned at once to the Club for mentalrelief, and, calling on Mr. Howe, arranged with him thata meeting should be called at once, and, as the season ofplanting was coming on, they agreed that the topic to bediscussed should be Fertilizers and Fertilization. Mr,Hopkins called the meeting to order, and proceeded todiscuss the question, — FERTILIZERS AND FERTILIZATION. I have been careful not to occupy an unreasonable share ofthe time of the Club in the debates which have thus far beencarried on, and I feel, therefore, that I shall not be steppingbeyond the bounds of reason, if I take an early opportunity toexpress my views on the subject now before us. I am sure weshall all agree that the question of fertilizers and fertilization isone of the most intricate and complex, as well as most impor-tant, with which we have to deal. Precisely what t
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