The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1872-09-18
VexationS Of a Front Yard.
BY BOGGS.

VIC nave recently moved INTO q
house that has q front yard. We
have always lived in houses whose
front yard was the street. Chill
dren vii! play in the yard whether
there is a street running through
it or not. After two or three of
them had barely escaped being
run over by the teams that in
sisted on running through our
front yard, wife said she must
rent a house that hadn't any
street in it. So we did. But
lord! the children didn't make
any account Of it; they are in the
street as much as ever, accumu-
lating their daily supply of narrow
escapes.
Wife said the yard looked bare
without shrubs, and flowers, and
vines. l hintcd that a little grass
would help it too. She asked me
if knew where I could get some,
and | told her that | knew a little
grass widow on the next street, if
She would do. l retreated follow
ed by the rolling pin.
One morning as I was going
away, wife asked me to bring her a
few "annuals" when came back.
I wondered what she wanted with
ANIMALS as | rode down in the
street car, but l am accustomed to
blind obedience to her requests,
so when | went home at night I
brought her some ANIMALS. There
were ''Dr. Jayne's Medical Alma
nae" remember, and the "Odd Eel
lows Annual Offering" and ANEW
Years Address," for 1862: and
the birth Day Gift" and num-
erous annual addresses before agri-
cultural associations that had ac-
cumulated on my hands.
Good gracious" exclaimed Mrs.
Boggs (she never swears like that
unless under great excitement),
"what have you brought me ?"
:Annuals, Mrs. Boggs," said I.
"You said you wanted some an
nuals, and here they are"
Then Mrs. Boggs burst out
laughing and cried, "Why, you
old fool you, 1--WE have been mar
ried twenty years, but Mrs. B.
calls me pet names yeti, the an
nuals l mean are flowers such as
verbenas, pansies, daises, morning
glories, mignonette and the like,
to set out in our front yard"
Then she took all the ANIMALS l
had been at so much pains to
collect and set them out in the
back yard among other rubbish.
The next morning she asked me
if l thought l could get her some
roses for the front yard. Told
her I knew q man who had got a
lot Of early rose potatoes, but it
wasn't the right time for setting
them out, q have an idea that
the ground is much better employ.
ed IN raising potato than in rails.
ing a flower, unless it be a barrel
of four.) Wife said I hadn't a bit
Of taste. She then gave me a
memoranda of roses she wanted.
l was busy all day, but just as I
was about taking car for home
thought Of the roses. I referred
to the memoranda and found the
following:
Get few gcraniums, fuchias.
heliotrope, roses, bourbon, run,
ming rose, ''Prairie Queen golden
tea plant, vines, English ivy:
Wandering Jew, seeds, ETC."
studied it hard, but it was
slightly incomprehensible. She
had evidently got things mixed
up. However, l went to a florists
and told him what I wanted. SaiG
I: "Give me a few geraniums anc
a few she's, and"
"a few what ?" asked the flower
man, looking very puzzled.
GA few She's" said /, turning
very red, I know, for I couldn't
tell for the life Of me what my
wife wanted Of a few she's abou
the place, as she never could liv'
in the same house with anothe
roron