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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> >City people think Country people are dumb, uneducated, easily manipulated 
> hicks.  Ruralites think that people living in the city are weak , soft, 
> p*ssies.  Both views are naiive. 

Many of us have lived in cities and very large cities at that.  No matter how 
fit someone thinks they are because of a few rounds of handball or thrice 
visits to gym, they cannot endure the rigors of continuous physical work 
unless 
the slowly condition to it.

City popinjays  have come here and wanted to try their hand at the bucksaw at 
the wood pile.  Young, strapping, seemingly fit people and after ten minutes 
they can hardly breathe or move.  And yet we keep it up for two hours at a 
time with hardly a pause.  I'll never forget the look on one visitor's face 
when 
the (then) 9 year old daugher hoisted up the 50 lb sack of corn and carried 
it 
uphill to the barn.  Or when Herself told me to fetch some more cabbage and 
when I said I'd go off to the garden and get some, the remark was "You don't 
mean you are going to WALK there??!!"  Sure it's the equivalent of six blocks 
away and on he way from the garden back to the house you will be 100 feet 
higher 
than when you started, we don't think anything of it and make the walk as 
many as twenty times in a day.

No, our opinion that the city dweller is quite the marshmallow compared to 
small farm worker is quite well founded.  The belief that there is not much 
difference is what is naive.


James