The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-05-22
A Stir in a Poor NeighbOrhOOd.


Had TO come 10 ill., said Squire 3ogart,
as he leaned over the fence, and put fresh
quid in his cheek.
Had 10 come 10 what I? asked John Nu~
gent as he stood in the road with his gun
on his shoulders and "a string o. gray squir-
reIs trailing upon the ground.
'Whv, haini ye heern out! My old barn
blew down ~ the lire storm, and ] had 10
pat up another
'Wal, il is i'll wind that blows nobody any
good | guess il : abou: the best thing that
has happened n ye this many day.
have alters been ashamed OF that are barn
for ye, whenever have come by, it looked
so bad
Ashamed better look 10 hum, John Nu-
gent, and see yer own barn with the boards
dangling in The air, and The doors down
Ii is nothing but slandin' miracle, that has
kept it up this year.
Guess ye haint ben up our way lately,
Squire got new barn myself,with cellar
I'd sheds IN il, and lots of fxin's.'
You don't say it! Wal meow what We
ewine tu du with a cellar under barn pray
tell, eli ye know Z?
COIN Iu make manure, s'pose, at least
the old woman sez SO, and ef don't du il,
she and the young ones will Says she
aini going TO live al this poor dying rate
emmy longer
SO ye had 10 cave in on the cellar, had
ye! Wal ye see didn't Vile advised
} me tu, and Col Smith sed | was fool ef
( | didn't. But carried my pint strate threw
and built barn in the good old way.
don't see what has got into the folks lately
all crazy about building cellars, and max
ing manure. Hardly barn put up in this
town this five years back but it's histed up
on cellar wall, jest like stills. Meow ye
see, it stands TO reason, that it's great deal
? harder to get things into il,and it makes the
barn colder to have The wind playin' under
it, and never could see the use of making
such fuss about manure. Ii makes the
produce more TO be sure, but it alters look
ed TO me like folks drinking brandy. 1t
makes 'em smart for leetle while, and
then they feel little worse Tor it. | guess
I its a good deal SO with this highly manured
! land.'
'Wal, ii may be so but my woman has
} got 10 ,akin' the papers, and has been up
{ 10 The fair, where she see many things ii
! liked TO turn her he'd, she sed they had the
smashines, punkins up there she ever did
| see, and beels that beat all, and such hand.
! some potatoes as they used TO have in old
| times, before the rot struck 'em aud that
they were all grown by making compost
! out of muck and stable manure in barn
| cellar. She haint talked OF nothing else
| Sc nee she got back. She begun as soon as
she got hum, and she has kept il up day
and night haint hardly had chance 10
sleep-blamed eli have. Meow, saz she,
| sJohn, you ken have barn and cellar just
as we'll as others, Ell you're only mind 10
think so The Citing yer courage up is
alters half the battle in anything. There's a
place out back of the old barn made pur-
pose Tor a cellar cena' most. With Jest a
little digging barn with cellar won'd hi
in there just like ducks font in the mud.
You have go, timber enough in the woods,
and the sawmil is handy, aud ihsn there Is
/ no end 10 the sluns in the moving lots, that
ought to be cleared out. Then you've got
muck enough down there in the swamp,
aud you might wheel il iE with wheel
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