Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1861-05-16
GFrom the Homesteadl
A Stir in a Poor NeighborhOod.


Had to come to it," said Squire Bogart,
as he leaned over the fence, and put fresh
quid in his cheek.
" Had to come to WHAT" asked John NJ
gent, as he stood in the road with his gun on
his shoulder and a string Of gray squirrels trail
ing upon the ground.
WHY, haiut ye heern ont My old barn
blew down in the line storm, and had to put
up another"
" Wal. it IS i'll wind that blows nobody any
good | guess it's about the best thing that
has happened tu We this many a day. l have
alters been ashamed Of that are barn for ye,
whenever have come by, it looked so bad"
" Ashamed. better look TO hum, john NJ
gent, and see yer own barn with the boards
dangling in the air, and the doors down. 1t
is nothing bat standin' miracle, that has kept
it Up this year"
Z" Guess ye haint ben up our way lately,
Squire; got q new barn myself with 4 cellar
aud sheds tn it, aud lots OF Gxu's'
" You don't say it Wal meow what We
gwine tn du with o cellar under a barn, pIay
tell, ef ye know p
" Com III MAKE manure, s'pose, At least thc
old woman sez So aud ef don't du it, she and
the young oIes will. Says she aint going to
live at this poor dying rate emmy l3nger.'
$50 We had to cave in on the cellar, had
We? Wal We see didn't. Wife advised me tn,
and Col Smith Sed was fool cf | didn't
But carried my pint strate threw, and buii.a
barn in the good old way. | dom. see what
has got into the folks lately, al! crazy about
building cellars, aud making manure Hardly
a barn put up in this town this five years
l., g.. I,,t -, "a,
Ike stills Meow re see, it stands to reason,
that It's great deal harder to get things into
it, and it makes the barn colder to have the
wind payn' under it, and | never could see
the use of making such q fuss about manure
1t makes the land produce more to be sure, but
it alters looked to me like folks drinking brandy.
1t makes 'cm smart for a ectle while, and then
they feel q little worse for it. | guess its
good deal so with this highly mauured land"
Wal, it may bc SO; bat my woman has got
to takiu' The papers, and has been up 70 the
fair where she see SO many things it liked TO
turn her he'd, she sed they had the smashues,
punkins up there she ever did see, and heetS
that beat all, and such handsome potatoes as
they used to have in Old times, before the rot
struck 'em aid that they were all grown by
making compost ont 0. muck and and stable
manure in a barn cellar. She haint talked
of nothing else sence she got back She be,
gun as soon as she got hum, and she has kept
it up day and night. l haint hardly had a
chance to seep-bamed eff have. Meow
sez she, John, you ken have barn and q eel
lar Just as well as others, cf you're only mind
TO think so. The Citing yer courage up is
alters half the battle in anything. There's
place ont back of the old barn made purpose
for cellar ecna' most With jest little dig
ging barn with a cellar would fit in there,
just like CuckS foot in the mud You have
got timber enough in the woods, and the saw
mill is handy, aud then there is no eerd to
the stuus in the moving lots, that ought to
be cleared out. Then you've got muck enough
down there in the swamp, and you might wheel
II in with wheel barrow eff you can't get it anY
other way. At any rate | and the young ones
can get 1t in ef you can't.
Now what upon airth could o feller do
when his woman talked to him in that sort O.
style ? had to 90 TO carring sawlogs right
off, and haint had chance to go a squirrel
hunting TIL to-day. The barns done, cellar
and all, and shed to put the old waggin un.
der, and the hull yards kivered with muck o
foot or more"
Wall, meow, that's jest like yew, John M
gent alters nosed round by woman Ye see
Miss Bogart knows her place-knows that she
can't nose ME round, emmy how. l expect TO
dig my grave about the time dig barn Gel
lar.
This conversation between Jeremiah Bogart |
and John Nugent shows quite change since
we drew the sketches of these old style far
mers not quite two years ago. We had occa
sion to pass their houses lately, and were about
as much astonished at the change as they |
seemed to be at each others improvements
There stood Jerry, leaning against the size of
his new barn, enjoying the October sun and
fresh quid, in very contempative mood
The new barn was manifestly great event in |
bis history, and we fear was not paid for--l