Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-10-30


for two dollars and a half per cord, poor
Poland was hauling his to the tavern to pay
for manure which he hadn't got yet
IL was on the first day of April that Poland
came to see his ncighbor He wanted to bor-
row hundred dollars for six months, or for
a year if he could.
What yc going to do with it," asked
Lyman.
want 70 make some improvements in
my barn cellar, and also enlarge the building
by putting on tie-up thus throwing the cat
tie out Of my main barn.
- declare, Poland, it's too bad, . said l.y-
man. pitingly Here I've laid up over two
hundred dollars clear cash, and you are worse
off than nothing--in debt. BY the lingo,
John, don't want 20 see you fooling away
money so. Your barn is large enough-as
large as mine IS with double your land to
empty into it. If lend you hundred dol
lars what assurance have ! that shall ever
see its I'd rather let it go where know il
is safe. | shouldn't want to sue you, and
might not get it without. Your farm is as
good as mine, and you have no moro need to
be borrowing than have,-or, you shouldn't
have
John Poland didn't say anything about the
two animals he had bought year and half
before, and the calf they had yielded him, for
which he had been offered within the week
four hundred dollars. He owned that amount
of stock over and above the stock owned by
Lyman. lie turned the subject of conycrsa-
ton as quickly as possible, for he wanted to
hear no more reasons from his friend for not
lending him the money.
That afternoon he went over to see the
man of whom he had bought this new stock,
who lent him the money he needed readily
" What fool ~ said Lyman, as he saw
the carpenters at work tearing away one whole
side of his neighbours barn, preparatory to
adding an apartment capable of accommoda-
ting forty-fve "hcad of cattle. However.
Poland worked on, and tried in vain to get
his noighbor to listen to some of his advice
4" Don't talk to me- cried Lyman, at the
end Of the second year. 4" I've got four hun
dred dollars at interest. Howmuch YOU got :"
"A thousand or so, returned the other.
Eli What do you mean -
Why, all the money have laid out on
this place is on interest
"Oho--ah, ha, ha, ha.--aud now how
much interest have you realized;
" So far I've let it all run at compound in
terest-put the interest right in with the
principal, and there il lies
Yes, and there it will lie. | don't be-
lieve you can raise fifty dollars now in cash.
You are right, Lyman could not raise
it without selling something which do not
wish at present to part with"
- thought so. But take your own way.
Ere long Arson Lyman was astonishod to
find that his noghbor had subscribed for
third paper, besides buying lot of books for
his children.
What's the use;' he said, as he sat in
his neighbours front ROOM and saw large
pile of books on the shelf 81 want my
children to learn to work--not to be spending
their time over books They get schooling
enough when our school il open.
d" So / mean that my children shall learn to
work" returned Poland but that shall not
prevent them from becoming well educated.
would rather leave them with good health.
rood characters, and well educated. than with
thousands Of dollars each, minus the educa-
ion"
"Oho That's the way you meant to Law
Up thousand dollars to have it in books.
nd papers, and new tie-ups, aud such like
- You shall see when the time is up"
We shall, returned Lyman, as he turned
owards home.
orn Poland had received from the land he {
lad manfred SO heavily and so carefully; and
IN the second year he only noticed that his
leghbor had extraordinary good luck with
us wheat, getting about ninety bushels from
'hree acres. But he had occasion to open his
Eyes on the third year.
One evening just at shutdown, he went over
INTO Poland field, where the men were Just
inishing raking up the three-acre piece where
.he grain had been the year before--the first
piece the present owner had plowed up and
dressed
Been piling some hay on here, said Iy- /
man, as he saw the huge lunches of hay
nearly as thick they could stand
Moths was all cut from these three
acres, returned Poland.
Lyman counted the bundles, and then osti- /.
mated their average weight. and upon reckon
ing up he found that the land had yielded not
far from four tops 10 The acrel He had lust
got in the hcO acres which he had first dressed
upon the new farm, and he had obtained short
of two tons per acre! lie knew that Po-
land had got ten bushels more of wheat per
acre than he had done, aud also more corn
lie began to think but yet he would not let
his money go for any such experiments up
on his place
The five years came around, and Arson I.y- !
man went on that day and sold fourteen bush
els of corn in order to get fourteen dollars to
put with nine hundred and cighty-six dollars
which he had at home.
well, Poland. I've got the prize /" said
Lyman entering the farmers barn in the af-
ternoon. 1t was early spring, just five years
from the day on which they bought I've
got the thousand dollars; now what have you
goti
Well have not far from four hundred
dollars in money"
"Aha-I thought So
" But, Arson Lyman said Poland, almost
sternly, are your eyes not opened YETI"
Opened What dye mean"
well mean that my farm, to-day. will
sell for one thousand dollars more than yours
will. Look at my hay-mow. There are nearly
twenty tons of hay; you have not ten. And,
mind you, l have five head of cattle more
than you have. Next season shall cut more
hay from twelve acres, which have now re-
generated, than you will cut from your whole
forty acres and you know my hay is worth
far more pound than your hay is told
you had five more head of cattle than YOU
had. For these five creatures | can. within (
SIX hours, take seven hundred dollars, cash
but M gueh u,p 1 3