“The company would have failed the second year if Josh had been dependent upon that idea and not the idea upon him. No, sir, that man came over in the Mayflower but he didn’t land till about five years ago. If you don’t believe it I’ll show you another man who came over a little earlier and who isn’t a member of our company because he doesn’t need even that help.” Then I take him round and introduce him to Dardoni. He meets the smiling black-haired Italian and sees the latter’s busy acres and meets another type of pioneer. If, after this, the investigator is of a mind that prosperity is so common hereabout that anyone can succeed, then I introduce him to the awful example. That’s Hadley. Poor old Hadley--even he confided in me the other day that if he felt real pert next spring he thought he’d put that patch back of his house into potatoes. THE END TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Perceived typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. Archaic or variant spelling has been retained.