Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-11-22
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very welI-Pll make a bargain with
you. Work with me, as usual, six honr:
day. farming and doing chores, and you
may do as you please with the
rest. Aud there's about an acre in that
turnlp patch, down by the orchard. Take
that and welcume."
" It's a bargain, father !'' said Charles
his heart fairly bounding with ioy anh
or he ran to his dear turnip pasch. lie
ielt like man. Eighteen hoars, out of
twenty-iour, were his own. He had an
acre of land. He was rich in health, ami
youth, and hope, and aspiration. He
owned also fair share of atmosphere, the
rains, and the sunshiue.'. Pretty soon
some of his companions came for him TO
so fishing. Charles had other fish
to Try" He told Them, frankly, what he
was doing.
"What! ! going to build house 90
cried one.
No; only study"
And to have farm of your own 90
No only garden"
Well, let US come and help you"
I" can't afford to hire help"
Afford ? Why it will be such fun p
&C Besides, when my study is built, I
may not wish TO be disturbed; ami you
will think it very hard, after helping me.
to build it, if you can't come in whencv-
er you like"
"oh! no. us all right. only let Us
help YOU"
So these boys went to work, bnSy as so
many beavers. How bo,s rDW work,
when there is any fan in it: when the
work has any attraction or any pleasing
object in view Not to have hclpr1
Charles, whom they all liked, wouI hay.
been Il real hardship.
Charles selected IL secluded corner BIZ
the orchard, near cold spring. ard win
hoes and shovel, they levcIed 4 space ior
building " little edilice, eight feet b7
twelve. When it Was ;,ii silnolh, il w -
was arranged that Ihey were TO cone TO
morrow, and coEsmrHce til" buiIdiny
But where is the timber 90 sail one.
Or the brick ?'' said another.
" We shall not want either q, present, ;"
said Charles. So they went AWAY in 4
mystery, which did mol diminish the in
terest.
The next day they found loer pieces of
plank laid down Whure the walls we're to
be, gravel pit open, and Il barrel of
lime. Prcttysoon thc water from Tie i,rin- !:
set some OF This smUkins--thea it was
mixed up with great Quantities Of gravel;
boards were set up. and the iwIll5 Ferc
begun. In four days they carried Chem
up to ten feet high. That aas high
enough. Then came the roof and floor,
and shelves for books, plastrring. and
whltewash and in n fortnight, Charles
had as pretty suite of rooms Is any one
could desire; with doors and windows.-
The boys all agreed that it was capital
fun.
This was in the early spring time and
now came the gardening. Charles bor-
rowed yoke of oxen, by changing works;
and his friends had more fan in helpu.
him plow. tie bought some manure ou
cIcdlt. Seeds he got Of his father, auI
by general contribution of the neigh
borS, who were greatly Interested in MS
operations and who all went to see the
new office, down in Ashlcy's turnip patch
So the garden was made.
But Charles had other things to cult
vate. Particularly, there was himself.
| very much i'll need OF cultivation. Hr
wanted books and DO ks, in Macy coun-
Try towns, are not very plentiful. rs
! among the law books Charles found a
Latin grammar, Ainsworth's Dictionary
/ aud sUnc poems. These werr pat u ,uv
! in one corner ; and were realty loaned
~ Cuartcs, who soon placed jncn on ;hc
shelves OF his study. So, with the min
lster, and the doctor, and in tnc t,wa Ii
brary, and here wnd there among the
ucishbors, he found his books.
his friends, AS he expected, took an in
tcrest III Tie study they had helped To
build, but he managcu 1t 50 that their Wis
its were no interruption. Mvrc-he maue
them useful. Sometimes, when ne saw
them coming, he would go to work in the
garden, aud of course, they would help
him. Sometimes, he took down sUtno
good white oak foiis he had made, and
they had bout at fencing, Tor which he
found instructions in bUoG. Sometimes,
they practised the muscle developing ex
erclses Of gymnastics. Sometimes, he
had them for All audience, while ne prac-
| tisud an elocutionary exercise aud he
! found u real aid i'll this cumpaniOnship,
and he never learned SO fast or SO tho
roughly, as when he was teaching them
SO that he far more than repaid them for
all their help.
Nor did he want for other aids, in his
efforts to make Il man Of himself The
doctor was AN enthusiast in natural sci
ence. he geO!osized and botanized all
over the country and Charles borrowed
his books, and WAS often the companion
Of his rambles. The minister hal been
through college, and helped him to fai.
start in Latin and Greek. But the
Freuch lie tried French without q
Master ;" but his tongue made sad work
with The pronunciation. Finally he hearl
of an elderly French gentleman, d
strange, eccentric person, who lived Siz
miles of, in an adjacent town. He loun4
him. told his story, and cquired the Gle