The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1853-09-14

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"well. not exactly sick. but he's got
very bad foot. He can't step on IT,"
All. how did il happen ?"
(" He trod on an old rusty nail in the
barn-hoor. aud il went into his foot
some WAYS"
"Whew. that's bad. )" uttered Thomp-
son. with a shuuder, 81 never allow my
boys 70 be around much barefooted. 4
have found that pricks and bruises ge-
nerally Gust more than shoe leather,
aside frum the comfort aud looks"
"Oh. Thomas wasn't barefooted. but
you see there was hole in the bottom
OF his shoe. meant To have carried
it to the village and had il mended, but
| forgot IT,"
"ah. friend Holmes. I save all such
difficulties as that. l always keep a
little leather by me. and when there is
little patching or tapping to be done.
! can FIX IL up In few minutes. All
these things can be done during the
rainy days. when | might be lying
idle"
Well. muttered Holmes. (" sup
pose could cobble shoe well enough.
II | only had the tools; but il takes
quite collection of implements to fill
a cnbbler's bench. However, what's
done can't be helped. guess Tom
will be out in day or two. But |
must hurry Oft now. TO tix my harrow"
u took Mr.. Holmes nearly all day
to mend his harrow, so that he had to
postpone the narrowing Of his land till
the next morning, and when at length
he got his grain into the ground, it was
just five days behind his neighbor
Thompson. His son was confined to
the house over week, and during that
time he had TO hire an extra hand, which
cost him about iour dollars, beside the
doctors bill he had to pay. When it
came having time he had to buy new
rakes, because the old ones had gone
to rack and ruin. Perhaps they have
started with the loss Of a lew teeth, or
the breaking OF bow. or perhaps even
the head might have been broken, and
thus instead ut saving good handle,
&c, aud making the other parts that
were needed, tor the want of proper
tools, he was obliged to buy new rakes
entire. so in all the departments OF
his business, he was constantly meeting
with obstacles, that retarded his prog.
ress, aud all for the want Of few sum
pie tools.
One rainy day in the fall, after the
harvesting was completed, MIR. Thomp-
son was IN his tool chamber, making
some apple boxes, when his neighbor
Holmes appeared.
Thompson" said the latter, after
he had had watched the movements of
his neighbor's foreplane for few mo.
ments, how much did that oxsled Of
yours cost have got to have me one
this winter"
%, that cost me nothing, | made it
myself, during some OF those rainy days
We had before harvesting. got the
timber out when | hauled out my wood
last twinter, SO that the job became quite
c; sy."
Well, neighbor Thompson" said
Holmes, after sume little time spent in
hard study, 81 don't see how you get
along SO. Your farm don't produce
any more than mine does, and l'm sure
you don't work as hard as | do. Your
wife don't make any better butter than
mine does, your sheep don't bear bet
ter wool than mine, your bees don't
make better honey you raise more fruit
than do, to be sure."
But | have no more trees" said
MIR. Thompson.
NO; IN then your fruit is of bet
ter quality, and inds a more ready mar
ket."
Ger a My, because have grated
in the b.st species. My rees were
the same as yours were twelve years
ago; and with regard to other matters,
| think il you will look about the two
places you will lind that in many re.
spects mine is the most productive.
My cows give more milk than yours do
through the winter, because they have
better shed room and warmer barn.
raise more pork than you do, because
my pens and pig-houses are tight and
comfortable and then | am inclined to
think that my bees make rathes more
honey than yours do, for my hives are
in better order. | may not raise more
than you do, IN guess the rats and
squirrels don't ~ such an easy en-
togours."
" Perhaps you are right" muttered
Hosmes, wltha acrest Wen look and
suppose you ard ap money
Certainly am r hum
dred dollars every yea
$50 much as that ?".1ttcred Hc.mes
with look Of surprise. "Why can't
lay up cent
"Let me give you bit Of a secret :
said Thompson, In kind neigA9or.y
tone, as he laid his plane upon the beAsh