The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1857-11-26
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'Yes-and paid me the money
4 tell ye, Dolly, Poland's thousanC
dollars ill come out minus-now yol
C mark my words
. Dolly Lyman said nothing for she wa
troubled at that moment by the though
{ that her husband was exercising spiri
of penurousness which looked mean; bu
she did not say SO.
Halo! what are ye doing! cried Ly
man, as he saw Poland commencing t,
run fence across his field.
I'm going to throw out just half 0
this field into pasturing,' returned 20
land.
'What?' exclaimed Lyman, hardly a
BILE to believe what he had heard. Throw
off half of your field Why-that won
leave you with more than twenty acres lc
till.
L know it,--and that's all | want.
am determined not to waste my time an(
energies in swinging scythe over forty
acres of land after five and twenty ton:
of hay when get forty tens from twenty
acres
Crazy as March hare!' muttered Ly'
man, as he turned away.
Ere long Lyman was met by another
surprise. He was at the hotel in the vii.
lage, one day, and there learned that bis
neighbor Poland had engaged all tReir
manure for four years; and that he was
to pay for it in wood, and butter, and
cheese, and such other articles of produce
as might be wanted.
D,lIy what do you suppose Poland has
been doing now?'
Il don't know, I'm sure returned the
wife, looking up.
well, l Il tell you. He's been and
engaged all the manure made at the tav.
ern stables for the next four years, and
he s got to haul wood, and let his butter
and cheese go to pay for it!'
On the same day he saw Poland and
asked him what he meant. Il mean to
bring my farm up, returned the latter.
But | get manure enough for two a.
cres of corn every year, and that's e.
nough,' said Lyman.
For you it may be. but l wish to ma
nure more. Our land was well run out
when we took it, and in order to get it
up to its fullest capacity we must be prod
igal of rich dressing
Well said Lyman, with a sort of pit
ying txpression-'go ahead; but if YOU
eyer see your money, let me know
III give you good account, never
fear, replied Poland, laughing. Il must
feed my land if l would have it feed me.
We havn't got land here like those rich
aluvial bottoms in the West. My land
needs nursing now
But Anson Lyman couldn't see the
use of wasting money in that way. He
thought the man who would first cut his
tillage land down one half, and then 60
off and buy such quantity of manure,
must be little be ter than foolish. He
wasn't such fool at all events.
During the following winter, while Ly-
man was cutting and hauling wood TO the
village for two dollars and half f8 cord,
poor Poland was hanling his to the tsv-
ern to pay for manure which he had not
got yeti
1t was on the first day of April that
Poland came to see his neighbor. lie
wanted to borrow a hundred dollars for
six months, or for a year if he could.
What are ye going to do with it?' ask
ed Lyman.
I-want to make some improvements in
my barn cellar, and also enlarge the
building by putting on tie-up, thus
throwing the cattle out of my main barn.
Il declare, Poland, it's too bad, said
Lyman, pityingly. Here I've laid up
over two hundred dollars clear cash, and
you are worse off than nothing--in debt.
By the jingo, John, don't want to 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 an hundred dollars what assur-
ance have that | shall ever see it! I'd
rather let it 90 where know it is sale.-
| shou dn't want to sue you, and | might
not get it without. Your farm is as good
as mine, and you have no more need to
be borrowing than have-or, you
shouldn't have
John Poland didn't say anything about
the two animals he had boughta year and
a half before, and the calf they had yield
ed 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. He
turned the subject of conversation as
quickly as possible, for he wanted to
hear no more reasons from his friend for
not lending him the money. l
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.
sWhat fool said Lyman, as he saw
the carpenters at work tearing away one
whole side of his neighbor's barn, prepar-
atory to adding an apartment capable Of
accommodating forty y-fve head of cattle!
However, Poland worked on, and tried in
vain to get his neighbor to listen to some
of his advice.
Don't talk to me- cried Lyman, at the
end of the second year. I've got four
hundred dollars at interest. How much