"When a seed-merchant of cautious disposition and an eye to the main chance receives from an
eminent firm of jam-manufacturers an extremely large order for clover-seed, his emotions are
mixed. Joy may be said to predominate, but with the joy comes also uncertainty. Are these
people, he asks himself, proposing to set up as farmers of a large scale, or do they merely want
the seed to give verisimilitude to their otherwise bald and unconvincing raspberry jam? On the
solutio ...