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


peas. beans aud radshes and Ia three
days afterwards he carried twenty-eight
dollars worth. Towards the end Of the
month ha had sold a hundred and thir-
IS dollars worth 81 early potatoes peas
beans. dc Thon be bad grosn corn
enough 10 bring him fifteen dollars
more. Ere long bis melons were ripe,
and a dealer ia the city had engaged
them al. He had six hundred fine
melons, Tor which he received fourteen
cents a psico by the lot making eighty
four dollars for the whole.
Daring the whole summer Peter was
kept busy ia attending TO the gathering
and selling OF the products Of his hill-
side He helped Mr. Stevens in hay
Ing. aud about some other matters
enough So thai be could have some
help when be wanted ii.
When the last harvesting came, he
gathered in seventy eight bushels Of
potatoes, besides turnips squashos,
pumpkins, etc, and eighteen bushels
Of white beans.
On the first day Of November, Peter
White sat down and reckoned up the
proceeds OF his land, and he found that
the piece had yielded him just five hun
dred and five dollars, and besides this
be had corn, potatoes beans and vege-
tables enough for his own consumption.
That winter he worked for Afr Stevens
getting out lumber for twenty-five dol
lars per month and when spring came
he was ready to go at his land again.
In the meantime Walter Stnrgis had
worked a year at fashionable calling
for three hundred dollars, and at the
end OF the term he was absolute owner
of two dollars.
Say, Peter you aren't going to work
on that land Of yours another season,
are you ? asked Walter, as the two met
IN the street one evening.
TO be sure | am, was the response.
But here's Simons wants clerk, and
| told him guessed you would be glad
to come. aaa 1a ~
W hat will he pay?
Three hundred. > s-
'Ah, Walter, | can make more than
that from my land.
Sturgis opened his eyes in astonish-
ment.
You're joking, said Sturgis.
No sir, | received FIVE hundred and
five dollars in money last year. Seven
ty-hve of that went for manure but
some Of that manure is now on the land, !
as l found the land SO rich last year as
not to need much more than half of it. |
This season | shall have two hundred
dollars worth Of strawberries, if
nothing unusual happens.
And you don't have TO work any win
ters to do this?'
No; four months labor is about all |
can lay out to advantage on it.
Walter went to his store, and during
the remainder of the evening he won
dered how it was that some folks had |
SO much luck.
During the second season Peter had
experience for guide and he filled up
many gaps that be had left open the
year before. His strawberries turned
out better than he had anticipated. |
and he made better arrangement for
his melons. And then from all that
land whereon he had planted his early
peas he obtained second crop of much |
value. 1t was but one hours drive into
The city, and he always obtained the
highest prices, for he brought the ear
lest vegetables in the market
On the first of the next November he
had cleared seven hundred dollars for
lhe season over and above all expenses.
Ore morning after the crops were all
{eatherd, Peter found man walking
soout over the land, and as the Young
nan came up the stranger asked him
who owned the hillside.
1T is mine, sir, replied Peter.
The man looked about, aud then
vent away, and on tie next day he
'ame out with two others. They looked I
over the place and they seemed to be
ilviding it off into small lots. They
'emained about an hour and then went
away. Peter suspected the land was
wanted for something. That evening
le stepped in at the post Office. and
here he heard that railroad was
5oing to be put through the village as
'oon as the workmen could be set at it.
On the next morning Peter wept out
lpon his land and as he reached the
PIPER boundary and turned and looked
lown, the truth flashed upon him His
hillside had gentle easy slope and
he view from any part of it was deli
,httul. a brook ran down through IL
rom an exhaustless spring 10 ID the
edge, and the locality would be cool and
greeable II summer and worm ia
'inter, st the foot Of the hill. on the
sft lay a small lake, while the river ran
n sight for several miles.
OF course, sohloquzed Peter thew
hluk thls would make beautiful build
az lots. And wouldn't it? C1rious
bat / never thought Of this before
nd then when the railroad comes
ere, people from the city will want
leir dwellings here. But this land y
aluable. Il IS worth LET mo see
~ six hundred dollars year. | can
aslly get eight OF nine hundred dollars
u what | could raise here. and | know
bat two hundred dollars win pay me 4
God round price for the labor per
'rm on II And then when nv peach