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The Story of an African Farm

CHAPTER 2
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The weakest never wins but where there is handicapping.

Nature, left to herself, will as beautifully apportion a man's work to his capacities as long ages ago she graduated the colours on the bird's breast.

If we are not fit, you give us, to no purpose, the right to labour; the work will fall out of our hands into those that are wiser." She talked more rapidly as she went on, as one talks of that over which they have brooded long, and which lies near their hearts.
Waldo watched her intently.
"They say women have one great and noble work left them, and they do it ill.

That is true; they do it execrably.

It is the work that demands the broadest culture, and they have not even the narrowest.


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