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...side of a well. Their conversation rouses Jacob's ready memories, which the tale follows back to their beginning: his cheating his elder brother Esau out of their father Isaac's blessing; his flight from Esau's wrath to Laban's far-off farmstead; the long years he spent there serving the closefisted Laban that he might marry his daughter Rachel; how Laban in turn cheated him, substituting his other daughter Leah ; how Jacob ended by marrying them both and taking his family and riches back to his own country; the reconciliation with Esau; the massacre...
...Simpson, Ill., Henry Newton and Raymond West, farmers, were quarreling over a ditch one had dug which diverted water from the other's farmstead, one afternoon last week. The argument waxed. At the same instant, both drew guns and shot each other dead through the head...
...passing tourist were observing the fauna about the farmstead of Dr. W. E. Hastings near Mt. Vernon, Ind., he would be aghast. On that pleasant heath graze, plow, cavort, eight zebroids, heavily boned and muscled as their percheron dams, fractious and dainty-footed as their wild zebra sire...
...letters of reputation. He is the author of a translation, with texual criticism, commentary, and notes of "Varro on Farming," as well as the writer of a number of volumes prominent among which are "Science in the Roman Empire," "Heracleitus and Modern Theories of the Kosmos" "A Roman Farmstead" and of many magazine articles and reviews in the Classical Quarterly and elsewhere...