He was not anxious for so much immediate percentage upon an investment in artificial manure or steam-plough.

He might have said, with a greater man, 'Time and I are two.' It was Time, the slow passage of the years, that gave him his profit.

He was always providing for the future; he was never out of anything, because he was never obliged to force a sale of produce in order to get the ready cash to pay the bank its interest upon borrowed money.

He never borrowed; neither did he ever make a speech, or even so much as attend a farmers' club, to listen to a scientific lecture.

But his teams of horses were the admiration of the country side--no such horses came into the market town.