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The Bean-Field

        Meanher,

        ed, ient to be he

        earliest est he

        ground; i easily to be put off.     he

        meaning of teady and self-respeg, this small herculean

        labor, I kne.    I came to love my rohough so many

        more ted.    ttaco t

        strengtaeus.    But whem?    Only heaven

        knoo make tion

        of ths surface, which had yielded only quefoil,

        blackberries, jo, and t s and

        pleasant floead t shall I learn of

        beans or beans of me?    I ce I

        o t is a fine broad

        leaf to look on.    My auxiliaries are ter

        t fertility is in tself, which for

        t part is lean ae.    My enemies are worms, cool days,

        and most of all woodc er

        of an acre .    But    jo and the

        rest, and break up t he

        remaining beans oo tougo meet

        new foes.

        from Boston to tive tohese very woods and

        to t is one of t ses stamped on

        my memory.    And noo-nige

        very er.    till stand han I; or, if some

        umps, and a new

        gro

        eyes.    Almost t springs from the same perennial

        root in ture, and even I    lengto clothe

        t fabulous landscape of my infant dreams, and one of ts

        of my presend influence is seen in these bean leaves,

        blades, and potato vines.

        I planted about two acres and a    was

        only about fifteen years sihe land was cleared, and I myself

        out tumps, I did not give it any

        manure; but in t appeared by the

        arroination had

        aly d ed    and beans ere we men came

        to clear to some extehe soil

        for this very crop.

        Before yet any woodche road, or

        t above the dew was on,

        t it -- I o do

        all your work if possible wo level

        ty    upon

        ted, dabbling

        like a plastic artist in t later in

        tered my feet.    ted me to hoe

        beans, pag slo yellow gravelly

        upland, beteen rods, the one end

        terminating in a s in the shade,

        the green berries deepened

        tints by time I .    Removing the

        ting fres tems, and encing this

        weed ws summer

        t in bean leaves and blossoms rathan in wormwood and

        piper and millet grass, making tead of grass

        -- ttle aid from horses or

        cattle, or s of husbandry, I

        e han

        usual.    But labor of to the verge of

        drudgery, is per form of idleness.    It has a

        stant and imperiso t yields a

        classic result.    A very agricola laboriosus o travellers

        bound o nobody knows where;

        tting at th elbows on knees, and reins

        loosely oons; I taying, laborious native of

        t soon my ead    of t and t.

        It ivated field freat distan

        eit of it; and sometimes

        travellers gossip and ent

        t for ;Beans so late! peas so late!" -- for I

        tio plant wo erial

        suspected it.    ", my boy, for fodder;

        for fodder."    "Does ; asks t of the

        gray coat; and tured farmer reins up eful dobbin

        to inquire w you are doing whe furrow,

        and reends a little c, or any little e stuff, or it

        may be aser.    But wo acres and a half of

        furro -- there

        being an aversion to ots and    far

        aravellers as ttled by pared it aloud h

        t I came to know ood

        in tural    in Mr. ans

        report.    And, by timates the crop which

        nature yields in till he

        crop of Englisure calculated,

        tes and tas in all dells and pond-he

        ures and ss grows a rid various crop only

        unreaped by man.    Mine    ing liween

        ivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others

        hers savage or barbarous, so my field was,

        t in a bad sense, a ivated field.    they were beans

        ing to tive state t I

        cultivated, and my hem.

        Near at opmost spray of a birche brown

        to call he

        m, glad of your society, t    another farmers

        field if yours    ing the seed, he

        cries -- "Drop it, drop it -- cover it up, cover it up -- pull it

        up, pull it up, pull it up."    But t , and so it was

        safe from suc his rigmarole,

        eur Paganini performances oring or on ty, have

        to do ing, a prefer it to leached ashes or

        plaster.    It op dressing in wire

        faith.

        As I dreill fres th my hoe, I

        disturbed tions who in primeval years

        lived us of war and

        ing    of they lay

        mingled ural stones, some of whe marks of

        he sun, and also

        bits of pottery and glass broug cultivators

        of tinkled against to music

        eco t to my

        labor    and immeasurable crop.    It was no

        longer beans t I    hoed beans; and I remembered

        y as pride, if I remembered at all, my acquaintances

        y to attend torios.    thawk

        circled overernoons -- for I sometimes made a

        day of it -- like a mote in the eye, or in heavens eye, falling

        from time to time he heavens were

        rent, torn at last to very rags and tatters, a a seamless cope

        remained; small imps t fill the

        ground on bare sand or rocks on tops of hills, where few have

        found t up from the

        pond, as leaves are raised by to float in the heavens; such

        kindredsure.    the wave

        ed

        o tal unfledged pinions of the sea.    Or

        sometimes I che sky,

        alternately s and desding, approag, and leaving one

        anot of my os.    Or I

        tracted by to t,

        quivering winnowing sound and carrier e; or from

        under a rotten stump my urned up a sluggisentous and

        outlandisted salamander, a trace of Egypt and t

        our porary.    o lean on my hese sounds and

        sig of the

        inexible eai wry offers.

        On gala days tos great guns, which echo like

        popguns to tial music occasionally

        pee to me, a ther

        end of to;

        and urnout of w, I

        imes    of itg

        and disease in tion

        tina or ker-rasil at length some

        more favorable puff of he

        ayland road, brougion of t;trainers."    It seemed

        by tant    the

        neigils advice, by a faint tintinnabulum

        upon t sonorous of tic utensils, were endeav

        to call to the sound died

        quite a favorable breezes

        told no tale, I k drone of them all

        safely into t no

        on t was smeared.

        I felt proud to kno ties of Massacts and of

        our faturo my

        h an inexpressible fidence, and

        pursued my labor crust in ture.

        sounded as if all

        t bellohe buildings expanded and

        collapsed alternately    sometimes it was a really

        noble and inspiring strain t reacrumpet

        t sings of fame, and I felt as if I could spit a Mexi h a

        good relisand for trifles? -- and

        looked round for a woodco exercise my chivalry

        upon.    tial strains seemed as far aine, and

        reminded me of a marc

        tantivy and tremulous motion of tree tops whe

        village.    t days; the sky had from my

        clearing only tingly great look t it wears daily,

        and I sa.

        It    long acquaintance which I

        cultivated    ing, and hoeing, and

        ing, and the

        last    of all -- I miging, for I did taste.

        I ermio know beans.    o

        ill noon, and only spent

        t of t otimate and

        curious acquaintanakes

        eration in t, for ttle

        iteration in turbing te anizations so

        rutins h his hoe,

        levelling ing

        anots Roman s pigs sorrel

        -- ts piper-grass --    urn s

        upo t let he shade, if you

        do urn    other side up and be as green as a leek in

        t    hose

        trojans whe

        beans sao the

        ranks of trench weedy dead.

        Many a lusty crest --    towered a w above

        .

        temporaries devoted to the

        fis in Boston or Rome, and oto plation in India,

        and oto trade in London or Neher

        farmers of o    t I ed

        beans to eat, for I am by nature a Pythagorean, so far as beans are

        ed, wing, and exchem

        for rice; but, perc work in fields if only for

        tropes and expression, to serve a parable-maker one day.

        It , oo long,

        migion.    them no manure, and

        did not hem unusualy well as far as I

        , and    in t;trut; as

        Evelyn says, "no post or laetation o this

        tinual motioination, and turning of the

        spade."    "t; ;especially if fresh, has a

        certain magism in it, by tracts t, power, or

        virtue (call it eit life, and is the logic of all

        tir    it, to sustain us; all dungings and

        otemperings being but to this

        improvement."    Moreover, t; and

        exed lay fields erce, as

        Sir Kenelm Digby ttracted "vital spirits" from the

        air.    I ed twelve bushels of beans.

        But to be more particular, for it is plai Mr. an

        ed cs of gentlemen farmers,

        my outgoes were,--

        For a hoe ................................... $ 0.54

        Plowing, oo much.

        Beans for seed ...............................    3.12+

        Potatoes for seed ............................    1.33

        Peas for seed ................................    0.40

        turnip seed ..................................    0.06

        e line for crow fence ....................    0.02

        ivator and boy three hours .........    1.00

        to get crop ...................    0.75

        --------

        In all .................................. $14.72+

        My ine rem familias vendacem, non emacem esse

        oportet), from

        Nine buss of beans sold .. $16.94

        Five"large potatoes ..................... 2.50

        Nine"small .............................. 2.25

        Grass ........................................... 1.00

        Stalks .......................................... 0.75

        -------

        In all .................................... $23.44

        Leaving a peiary profit,

        as I have elsewhere said, of .............. $ 8.71+

        t of my experien raising beans:    Plant the

        all    of June, in rohree

        feet by eig, being careful to select fresh round

        and unmixed seed.    First look out for worms, and supply vacies by

        planting ane for woodc is an exposed

        place, for t tender leaves almost

        as tendrils make their

        appearaice of it, and will sh

        botti like a squirrel.    But above

        all    as early as possible, if you s and

        his means.

        to myself, I will

        not plant beans and    ry anot

        suc lost, as siy, truth,

        simplicity, fait

        grooil and manurance, and sustain

        me, for surely it    been exed for these crops.    Alas!    I

        said to myself; but noher,

        and anoto say to you, Reader, t the seeds

        ues,

        en or    tality, and so did not e up.

        only men hers were brave, or

        timid.    tion is very sure to plant    and beans each

        neuries ago and taughe

        first settlers to do, as if te in it.    I saw an old

        man to my astonis, making th a hoe

        for tietime at least, and not for o lie down

        in!    But ry neures, and

        not lay so mucress on ato and grass crop, and

        hese?    hy    ourselves

        so muc our beans for seed, and not be ed at all about

        a neion of men?    e should really be fed and cheered if

        o see t some of ties

        wher

        produs, but    broadcast and floating

        in taken root and grown in him.    here es such a

        subtile and ineffable quality, for instance, as trutice,

        test amount or ney of it, along the road.

        Our ambassadors sructed to send home such seeds as

        to distribute the land.    e

        sand upon ceremony y.    e should never

        d insult and banishere

        t

        meet te.    Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem

        not to ime; t t

        deal hus plodding ever, leaning on a hoe or a spade as a

        staff betially risen out

        of t, like sed and

        he ground:--

        "And as hen

        Spread, as    to fly, t;

        so t    we migh an angel.

        Bread may not al al even

        takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant,

        nize any generosity in man

        or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy.

        A poetry and myt, at least, t husbandry

        ; but it is pursued    e and

        being to have large farms and large

        erely.    e ival, nor procession, nor ceremony,

        not excepting our cattle-shanksgivings, by which

        the saess of his calling, or is

        reminded of its sacred in.    It is t

        to Ceres and terrestrial

        Jove, but to tus rather.    By avarid

        selfis, from whione of us is free,

        arding ty, or the means of acquiring

        property che landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded

        of lives.    ure

        but as a robber.    Cato says t ts of agriculture are

        particularly pious or just (maximeque pius quaestus), and acc

        to Varro t;called ther and Ceres, and

        t t tivated it led a pious and useful life, and

        t t of turn."

        e are    tet t tivated

        fields and on ts    distin.    they

        all refled absorb    a

        small part of ture which he beholds in his daily

        course.    In ivated like a

        garden.    t of    and

        rust and magnanimity.     though I

        value t t in the

        year?    t so long looks not to

        me as tivator, but ao influences more

        genial to it,    green.    these beans have

        results    grow for

        (in Latin spica, obsoletely

        speca, from spe,    be the

        s kernel rain (granum from gerendo, bearing) is

        not all t it bears.     fail?    Shall I

        not rejoice also at the

        granary of t matters little paratively whe

        fields fill true husbandman will cease from

        ay, as t no    whe woods will

        bear uts t, and finish every

        day, relinquiso the produce of his fields, and

        sacrifig in    only    but    fruits also.
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