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As to Farmer Holly -- Farmer Holly himself awoke to some new experiences that Monday morning . One of them was the difficulty in successfully combating the cheerfully expressed opinion that weeds were so pretty growing that it was a pity to pull them up and let them all wither and die . Another was the equally great difficulty of keeping a small boy at useful labor of any sort in the face of the attractions displayed by a passing cloud , a blossoming shrub , or a bird singing on a tree-branch . In spite of all this , however , David so evidently did his best to carry out the `` dos '' and avoid the `` do n'ts , '' that at four o'clock that first Monday he won from the stern but would-be-just Farmer Holly his freedom for the rest of the day ; and very gayly he set off for a walk . He went without his violin , as there was the smell of rain in the air ; but his face and his step and the very swing of his arms were singing -LRB- to David -RRB- the joyous song of the morning before . Even yet , in spite of the vicissitudes of the day 's work , the whole world , to David 's homesick , lonely little heart , was still caroling that blessed `` You 're wanted , you 're wanted , you 're wanted ! '' And then he saw the crow .