The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-12-01

"BnooK FARM."-The Boston CORES
pendent of the Chicago Tribune give
some crumbs from advanced sheets o
Passages from the American Not
Book Of Nathaniel Hawthorne" short,
to be published. We extract the fol
lowing in relation to the authors e1
perience at Brook Farm. 1t will b,
recollected by many that this was ar
association movement to organize 6
joint stock community in Massachusetts
during the year 1871. TWAS an expert.
ment to test the possibility of making
such Industrial, social and educa tional
arrangements as would combine leisure
for study with heallhful and honest toll,
equailze rehnements, and apply the
principles Of fraternity to actual rela-
tons. Of his stay in that community,
Hawthorne wrote the following quietly
humorous description:
have not taken my first lesson in asricu,-
ture, except that | went to see our cows fod-
dered yesterday afternoon. We have eight
Of our own; and the number is increased bv
a transcendental heifer belonging to Miss
Margaret Fuller. She is very fractions, l
believe, and apt to kick over the milk pail.
| intend to convert myself into a
this evening, but l pray heaven
that Ripley may be moved to assign me the
kindest COWS in the herd, otherwise l shall
perform my duty with fear and trembling.
l like my brethren in aff1iction very we'll
and, could you see us sitting round our table
at meal times. before the great kitchen fire,
you would call it cheerful sight Mrs. B.
is most comfortable woman TO behold. She
looks as if her ample person were stuffed full
Of tenderness, indeed, as if she were all one.
great, kind heart.
l did not milk the cows last |
night, because Ripley was afraid to trust |
hen to nv hands. me to their horns, |
know not which. But this morning | have
lone wonders. Before breakfast l went out
o the barn and began to chop hay for the
attic, and with such righteous vehemence,"
Is Ripley says, did l labor, that in the space
# ten minutes l broke the machine. Then
brought wood and replenishcd the fires /;
md finally went down to breakfast, and ate
Up a huge mound of buckwheat cakes After
Ripley put four-pronged inStru-
nent into nay hands, which he gave me to
understand was 4 pitchfork; and he and
Farley being armed with similar weapons,
We all three commenced gallant attack up +
n heap of manure. This office being CON
ludcd, and l having purified myself, l sit
own to finish this letter.
Miss Fuller's COW hooks the other cows,
nd has made herself the ruler of the herd,
nd behaves IN a very tyrannical manner.
shall make an excellent husbandman-I
eel the original Adam reviving within me.
| have MIXED c0w,.. The herd has re-
elled against the usulpatious of Miss Full
RS heiter; and, whenever they are turned
ut OF the barn, she is compelled to take
afuse under our protection. So much did
he impede my labors, by keeping close TO
le, that found 1t necessary TO give her two
r three gentle pats with a shovel b1t still :
le preferred to trust herself to my tender :
ercles rather than venture among the horns
the herd. She is not an a!niable cow but
IL has very intelligent face, and seems to
> Of a reflective cast of character. l doubt |
ot that she will soon perceive the expedi- Il
icy of being on good terms with the rest CT 5
re sisterhood.