Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-08-01
Jf!igrRIlanEnng.
The Wife,s Influence.

d nave garden ihls summer, ike the
, Townsends'. How nice it would
be to raise all the currsuts and
strawberries that we should want
Just think of those beautiful large
t strawberries that we saw at the cx-
hlhition last summer would they
not be delicious with sugar aud
cream for tea, when you come IN 50
tired, IA the hot weather in June ~
To this query Of his young wife,
as they were seated together at the
window, one evening early in the
spring, just after the snow had dis.
appeared, aud vegetation was egin-
lumg to unfold the evidences Of vi
talty after having endured the
storms aud rigors of an almost arc
TIC winter, Harry Marley asseuted,
but urged as plea for not com.
meucing the execution of the pro-
posed TASK. that ms he had new
farm, and ms means were limited,
'lt would not be advisable to devote
his time to the cultivation of such
articles as were not really necessa-
.ry, or that would produce no re-
|lurn in cash, and that the idea of
revellng IN Strawberries and cream
was altogether too pOetlcal for a
poor, young farmer to indulge IA.
The wife, however, continued to
paint the picture she had already
drawn, in more glowing colors. -
/ The currauts, She said, would last
SIX weeks during the hottest wealth
en- and after they were once plant
ed they would require but little
care. Vegetables also could be
grown, which would more than re-
pay all tile labor bestowed upon
them lettuce and radlshes m few
weeks would be ready for use, and
then would follow cucumbefs aud
tomatoes, that would last TIL de-
Stroyed by The frost M the fail aud
|lt there could be some rhubarb tins
spring, another ear they could have
such excellent PIES A few flowers.
too, could be planted along the
edges of the walks, winch would
furnish boqueis tor the table.
In this way she continued, until
she faucied that her happiness
would be complete # her desires M
this respect Were gratfed
Harry, however, although an eX
ceIIent farmer, had never acquired
"A taste for gardening, and stul con
iinued to think his wile's ideas all
together impracucabe at the pres
ent time. 1t is true he had some
obscure notions of sometime hav-
ing a garden--when he had more
tune, and when the duties of his
farm did not call so loudly for their
immediate discharge IN fact, as
hr used to say, "when he got time" .
lie had even gone SO far the year
before, as to fence IN about half am
mere OF ground on one side of his
house, aud cultivated II NJ carrots
for his stock.
This spot the wife's fancy, in her
dreams that night, invested with all
he beauty aud lovemess Of Eden.
Graceful tees with their bougho
pendant to earth, with their golden
burdens swept by the gentle breez-
IS, murmured harmonious slralus
flowers OF surprising lnvehnesS, of
every pleasing form aud hue, flied
he atmosphere with delicate per
iume brilliant pumed birds filter
ing from tree to tree, made the arr
resouud with enrapturlng music. --
The eye, the ear, the taste, the
smell, every sense was grauhed.
But alas, this was a dream. The
shrlll notes of the cock, just as the .
daylight appeared in the east, a.
woke the dreamer from her slumh
er, aud brought back the mind from
It's beautiful wanderlngs. She a
rose, and casting her eyes through
the window they fell UPON the gar
den spot but how unlike the vision
OF her sleep nothing there but the
black bare earth. She looked at II
steadily for few moments, aud
then turned away with a new reso-
luton.
That morning she said no more
to her husband on the subject of
last evenings conversation, aud to
ms mud 1t did not again recur, as
it was entirely devoid of interest
to HIM.
After larry had gone out upon
his farm that morning ms vile re-
paired directly To nelghbor Town
sends, about a mile distant, whom
she saw long before reaching the
house, busy at ms hoi-bed. A. she
entered the gaze to go to the house,
sbe found Mistress Townsend with
her daughter looseniug the earth ~
a bed Of crocnses and hyaclnths,
which were Just beginning to put
forth their blossoms She was
greeted with hearty welcome, aud
taken from plant to plant, aud their
names repeated, and a great many
things told about them, which WAS
all like Greek to our poor devoted
novice.
But many things she did learn,
aud when she was ready to leave,
she had been M every nook and
corner of the garden aud had told
the Townseuds all that she wanted
tn do, and received a bundled pro-
misses Of all the assistance they
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