The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-04-21

~hole week be scaFcaed Ia vain foI
emIloyment. but at tie end of tha
i tlme lie found an old farmer who want
a band though hs could not afford
e pay much. Bus Peter finally. viii
the advice of Air. Somers. made aa az
raugetaeut Of this klnd lie woull
work for thNola iarmer Mr. Stevens
steadily anlll the ground MSS open, aud
ho should have half the time 70 devote
70 bis own land. and 10 part payment
Ter bis services. Stevens vas IL helr
about the ox work that the youth nigh,
need. Next Peter went To The hotel
where there was quite stable, aud en-,
gagged 8 hundred loads of manure. the
landlord promising to take his pay in
produce whsn harvest time came. So
Peter White put on a blue frock and
eoahide boots and went 10 work foi
farmer Stevens
Ia the maansime Waiter Sturgis
had been 10 the city To try TO find O
situation ia some store, bat he came
back bootless. He was surprised when
be met Peter driving an OK team
through the village At first he
could hardly believe his own eyes.
Could II be possible that that was Peter
White, in that blue froek and those
coarse boots?
On the next day relation from the
city came 10 visit Walter. The two
walked out. during the day Walter saw
Peter coming towards them with his
team. lie was hauling lumber which
Mr. Stevens had been getting out du-
ring the winter. Walter saw how
coarse and humble his quondam clerk
mate looked, and he knew that Peter
would hail him if they met so he
caught his companion by the arm and
lodged into by-lane. Peter saw the
movement, and understood it. but he
only smiled
By-and-by the snow was all gone on
the hillside. The wintry garb was re-
moved from that spot before it left 9th
er places, for Peters lot lay on the
southern slope Of the hill, and thus had
all the advantages of the warm sun all
day, without any of the cold north and
east winds. The youth found his land
very rocky, but none of them were per-
manent SO his first move was 70 get
off some of these distractions and as
Mr.. Stevens land was not yet clear
from snow, le was able to give his
yonng workman considerable assis-
tance. They took two yokes of oxen
and two drags, aud went at il, and in
just five days every rock was at the foot
of the slope, and made into a good
stone wall Peter then hauled his hun
dred loads of manure, which he had
bought for seyenty-hye dollars, and
part Of it he plowed in and part he
saved for top dressing.
Peter now worked early and late
and much of the time he had help.
Mr.. Stevens was surprised at the
Of the soil, but there was rea-
son for it. At the top of the hill there
was huge ledge. The rocks which
had encumbered the hillside must at
some former period, have come tumb-
bling down from the ledge and the
rocks, lying there for ages, perhaps,
and covering nearly half the surface,
of the ground, had served to keep the
soil moist and mellow
The first thing Pe.er planted was
about a quarter Of ala acre of water
melons. He then got in some early
garden sauce, such as potatoes, sweet
corn, peas, beans, radishes, cucumbers,
tomatoes and so on. And he got the
whole piece worked up and planted be-
lore Stevens farm was free from snow.
People stopped in the road and ga
,ed upon the hillside in wonder. Why
lad that spot never been used before
For forty years it had been used for a
sheep pasture, the rocks having forbid
len all thoughts of cultiyating it. But
low admirably it was situatnd for early
illing and how rich the soil must |
nave been with sheep running over it !
% long. An adjoining hill shut off the |
.ast winds, and the hill itself gave its
pack to the chill north.
Peter had planted an acre of corn, |
IN acre of potatoes, and the rest he had |
divided among all sorts of produce /
Then be went to work for Stevens again, |
md IN q few weeks he had more than
paid for all the labor he had been oblig- 4
ID to hire on his own land.
In the meantime, again, Walter Stur-
yis had been looking after employment +
lis hundred dollars had been spent up .
o the last penny, and just then he ac-
.epted place IN one of the stores in
.iIlage, at a salary of three hundred dol +
ars year. He still wondered how
'eter White could content himself in
uch business. Peter used to be invit-
a to ali the little parties when he was
clerk, but he WAS not invited now.
Waiter Sturgis went 10 these parties and
vas highly edited by them. Also, when
'oter Was q clerk, there we're several
oung and handsome damsels who
owed 10 bask in the sunlight of his
miles, and one Of them be fancied De
Dyed After he got bis hillside plant
q, be went TO see Cordelia Henderson.
nd be asked her If she would become
as wife ii some future period when ho
'as prepared to take such an article
ONE She told Aim she would think
I i and iet him know by letter.
Three days afterwards lie received
letter from her, in which she stated
lat she could not think of uniting her