Eastern times., 1855-03-08
He has a Hard Row to Hoe. :

Who, not in cities bred, has not heard This 4.
thousand times, aud said it thousand more,
about anybody aud everybody tha, encountered
some difficulties, and did moi advance at GAO
rate toward the acquisition of fame or fortune
Poor fellow hard row to hoe SO thaE
all say, some with a sigh. but more with
laugh. Like many sayings, it is the casing Of
pretty picture field of waving corn, aad
bright blue sky in June, and the workmsn GO
ing through the rus,ling ranks for the last time,
the rows so long iha, they seem to come to-
ge,her acres away, and the weeds all The while
on great race with the coru.
That's the picture, but there's something
more than a specimen Of the fine arts 10 the e4,
preston there's hn Of philosophy.
II occurs to US, there is all the difference ia
The world in the way penple ply that humble
instrument, the hoe and almost everybody
works With something very like it, it,ewhesheE
they work in the field, or 10 the counting
house, or the mechanc-shop. The thing is
done that is teorth dung, BY hard digging
S"me people 20 through the field snd ihEonah
The world, slashing this way and that, nov
through hill Of corn and now through weed,
making the whole era looa like the Iightning's
summer iallow. Such people certainly have
a hard row To hoe, If indeed, when they iu.
ish it, it proves worth hoeiag at all. -t
Others, again, strike a, the little weeds with
a sufficient expenditure of strength to fell
quite respectable tree, and the result 10, that
about midway of the field. and on the frs, row,
they lean upon the implement and sigh 10
themselves, We have hard row to hoe
And they tell the truth, for SO they do.
And now and then man manages to strike
every stone in the vicinity perfectly annihi,
lating blow-annhilating to The hoe, we mean
ard before the day is half dane. his weapon
is disabled, and rs faneies. like The rest, ihas
: he has hard row to hoe
Sometimes aIiuls green remnant Of the fall
springs up cluse at the root of blade of corn
as much as 10 say, Touch me il you dare
Well, the man is too lazy TO s,oop and pluck
away the intruder from his anchorage, and so
l he levels very dextrons blow at the offender,
cuts it off without benefit of clergy in a twink
ling, and-the blade of corn TOO and when
harvest comes, and the coru cribs are half filed,
he murmuss to himself that he has hard rov
/ to hoe
| In fact, the world is huge corn-ield, and
there's nothing like knowing how TO bardls
the hoe-N Y TS15aae.
Nor SO GREEy.-A young and apparently
verdant slip, who gave his haiIipg place as
{ old Yarmont, found himself surrounded, up
on certain occasion, by crowd of quizziDg
upstarts, whs seemed bent on showing their
own smartness, at the expense Of the Yankee.
Hello, Jonathan 7 says one, swhere are
you beuad =
Deoun 10 Bosting, on little tramp was
the reply.
What's your business 10 BostonF replied
the inqusitive gentleman.
Oh, I'm deorn arter my pension money
responded the greeny.
Pension money! calculated whiskeree-
how much do you get, and what are yoq
drawing pension Eeney for =
sOh' answered the countryman, Il gee
I four cents every year-tev mind my own busi-
ness, and tew let other folks business alone T.
! The crowd had no more remarks to offer
the answer was entirely satisfactory.