Small Potatoes

Tliis term is so gctiernlly reproachful. that ihe person or thing to which it s npplied is placed in the ]owe-t attitude. Bnt even smal] potntoes should not be despised, as Ihe following fhcis which ere related lo us by one of our townsmen who derived most profil from ihe proceeding, fullj Ilústrales. Some years ago, a gentleman visiiing a farmer in Tolland, Connecticut, took from his pocket a small int.-uder, whicb somehow got in there nt home. lt was thrown out with a smile, and the farmer taking it in liis bnnd to look at il, a curious liltle boy of twelve, at his elbow, askfd what ii was. O, noihing but a potatoe, my boy, - take and plant it- and you shall hnvc all yu can raise from it till you are free. The !ad took it, an J ihe farmer thonght no more about it ai that time. The boy, howevor, not despising símil pótateos, carefully dividcd it into as many pieces as he could find eye, and put tliein ii.to the ground. The product wris careiully put aside in the fall, and sred íor severa! hillswas obiainei for the next spring. The product was all kep. for sed, until the förth year, the yield being good, thn ac-Uinl produel wos fourhundred bu-,hels! The farmer, sering the p-ospect that the potatoe field would hy anothor year cover his wbole farm.asked to be released from his promise. NViih the same enlculntion, priiáence, and indnstry, how miny who are disposod to regard the trifiitig things on whlch fortunes ars built as too small polalnes to receive their otlenlion, would have peen in independent circumstanoes, f ihsy l.ad husbanded símil a-ivantages. 'Small potatoes' shouLJ not bo despised, even though there be at fïrst but 'a few in a