The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-12

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"Ths lab b split right slap in two halyse!'
"But tAeughs il began % split long
time ego hoard you cay, hst week, that
you must have new iron band made for
aYes-I knoW.' aid John Boggs rather
dubioasly; II did ny something about it,
bat then 4 didnH think Il was 20 bad
y .Yes, you knew Is wanted msnding, John;
for You said % yoursslf. wish You would
leaxn 10 b nors pronpt about these things.
You loss more tine than yoa are aware e.,
"Oh, no Tiddy. | don't lose anything
Everything on my place 10 - well as things
generally ara"
mot quite, John. I know you manage
70 keep things in pretty good order; but you
must eckseWlsdss that You are in the habit
Of procrassinating. It's only last week that
you lost valoabls sheep just because you
put Of msnding the door in the shed. And
nov ven have lost half . days work Of three
hands just because you didn't mend your cart
hub when it ought 70 have bsen mended-
Ah-you 20 lose much and there ia no use
in trying to hide it,
"Wsll-complaining wont mend it, that's
"No," quickly but pleasantly returned Ma
ida; "but paying heed 70 your experience
might mend the whole trouble"
"Phool You sit here in the house darnin
stockin's and s'pose you think cause you
can see where to run your needle, you could
zee everything in barn at once
"No, no, John." said the wife smiling
"You don't put it 10 the right shape. can
zee the heel Of stocking; and when l see
. place where my needle needs to run, 1 run
it there. ! don't expect you TO see but one
thing at q time; but when you do see that
thing, and also that il needs msnding, then
II the time to mend it.
John Boegs commenced to whistle med
ley Of spasmodic notes and at the same time
draw ON his coat He had got to 60 five
miles to a blacksmith to have an iron ring
made
John" said bis wife, plying her darning
needle ~ she spoke, "Now mark my words
il you don't turn over DOW leaf in this
respect, you II have lesson one of these days
that'll cost you more than you can afford to
pay"
John whistled with renewed energy, now
striking fairly into yankee Doodle and
with dubious shake of her head, HE wife
turned her attention to her work.
John BoGgs had two men to work for him
and BY this breaking of the cart they were
either Obliged to lie still or 60 at some work
that was Of NO use. He had q large farm, and
an excellent one for producing vegetation;
and he was quite well to do in the world
His children were daughters. and hence the
business ofoverlooking the affairs of the farm
al devolvsd upon him
Asw have seen John Boggs had one fault
He would put of till tomorrow what could
and should be done to day. He contrived to
keep his place looking clean and tidy, because
ct certain periods he would be seized with a
sort Of renovating fit, and would then roll up
his sleeves and 60 ut it But this didn't
work always Many time very important
things were left till he I" felt like it this was
. great exprsssionro of his; "Well-schen 1
.feel.like it,
Sometimes there would be a breakdown
that had to be attended to Immediately; and
while he had the hammer and nails in his
hand he would fix several other things that
had awaited his coming. Very often an
hour was required over something which
would not have required five minutes of his
time had he taken it in hand when he first
discovered it And not only SO, but he lost
il in other ways 1t required more nails to
do the work at this late hour, and could
never be made rs good at that Us it was be-
fore, nor as it would have been had he attend
cd 70 it in season.
joni had often promied his wife that he
would reform, but he had not done it yet
He did not realize how much he lost /; or if
he did the effect was momentary. When he
lost his sheep he would never let such
thing 20 again. And yet at this very mo-
ment there was bad place in the aoor OF
the tie-up where the cows were kept lie had
noticed II three days before. He saw one OF
the cows tread upon it and he knew that a
heavy OK would break through there at once
But the floor was not msndsi yet for all OF
that
When the ring, or hubband came,home,
Mr.. BOggs went to work to put it on. But
it would not work He had missed figure
in his calculations. The spokes had wern
the sockets SO much that all the straps in the
world could never fl that broben hub on
again.
Jerusalem T. muttered the disapyo iuted
man ~ he found that he could not make the
thing work. .'lf had only fixed the thun-
derin' thing when | ought to, this wouldn't
have been 1t too bad-too thunderin'
bad"
But there was NO help for it. A new hub
must be made He managed to find an old
wheel which he could use while the wright
was fixing his, and in this uncomfortable
way he managed to get along without losing
much over q days time.
One morning abouta week after the break.
ing Of the hub, one of the little girls came
running in while the family were at break
fast . ria
Papa papa the white-faced heifers
broke through the Aoorv'
''What T. uttered Boggs, starting up
"Broksn through the door?
John Boggs knew that his wife was look
ing sharply ut him, and he avoided the pc
culiar glance which he felt sure he should
find there if he turned that way. He called
ND the two men and hurried out As good
fortune would have it, the heifer was not
seriously harmed; but John knew he could
mot claim credit for her safety. When he
came back, his wife said not word upon the
subject At first JohR was afraid that she
would reprimand him but when he found
that she kept silence upon the subject, he
felt worse than he would have felt had she
chidsd him little. He knew she felt it
that she UNDERWOOD it-and her continued
silence seemed to indicate that she consider-
ed him incorrigible From that moment he
resolved that be would reform. Ah--hs had
made just such resolutions before.
For two months no real accident happened,
for john kept things presty straight, but still
there was some short comings. The habit Of
procrastination was too firmly fixed upon him
to be easily thrown off
Al Autumn drew near, John Boggs began
TO look sreund him for an opportunity to
carry into execution plan he had been con-
sidsring for some time. He had very
choice stock Of cattle, and having received a
good offer for them, he could buy again
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