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[husbandman] who should unclear a tree of this would think it an acquision. In expectation of enjoying its yearly produce unclear would cultivate it, manure, prune & water it. Let it have a fair opportunity to feel t. warm beams of t sun. T showers of Hn & t. pure air. But after all this attention [he] should he come to it, at t close of t year & find no fruit, & so repeated by for a number of years. He would feel disappointed, & mocked in his expectations. He would conclude there was a defeat in t. tree, & regret t trouble he had been at in its cultivation, he would conclude to bestow no more useless labor