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    The Allis Family
    The Allis Family
    The Allis Family
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    The Allis Family

    By American Sunday-School Union

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    Religious text written by the American Sunday School Union
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Classics
    Release dateOct 23, 2013
    ISBN9781627935678
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      The Allis Family - American Sunday-School Union

      THE ALLIS FAMILY

      Mr. and Mrs. Allis lived away out West, on a broad prairie, where Mr. Allis was busily engaged in making a farm. Perhaps some of my young readers, who have always been accustomed to see farms already made, will not understand what I mean by "making a farm;" and I will try to tell them.

      First of all, let them try to fancy a large meadow, either perfectly flat or a little uneven, as large, perhaps, as can be measured with the eye, and sometimes without a single tree, or scarcely a clump of bushes. There will be no fences in sight, and sometimes no streams of water, but the surface of the ground is covered with high, coarse grass. This is what Western people call a prairie.

      In order to make a farm, this ground must be ploughed, or, as Western people say, broken up. Some of the children would smile, I think, if they were to see a regular breaking team before a breaking plough. This plough is quite unlike that which is used in the older States, and it takes five, six, and sometimes as many as eight yoke of oxen to draw it. This ploughing is usually done in June. After ploughing, the ground must be enclosed, and then it is ready for the seed.

      Some people make curious mistakes when they undertake to make a new farm. Mr. Allis was one of these persons. He arrived at the little town of B----, with his family, late in the fall, and immediately set about looking for a location. Several miles from B---- he found a place that seemed to suit him. The soil was rich, and apparently inexhaustible; but it was poorly watered, and destitute of any timber suitable for building or fencing, and there was very little which was fit for fuel. The great thing he thought of was a large farm.

      After a while he found out his mistake, but it was

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