Middletown transcript., 1872-01-06
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A writer in the Cincinnati fyssss. ~.
ing pcrused Horace Grssssy's look 49,
farming. with The iinmsaists sGsst e y.
coming muddlcd. iuditcs the tolloVtnG
which be is careful to explain lis nst
II. c.
The bascss fraud on earth 10 sgrissItssS
The desdlicst iyxis fnfsM that eyer GIT:
tered to bsguile, and dassled % bctrsy. y
agriculture. speak with feeling on seb
subject, for I've been glittcsed and -
guilcd. and dasslsd and destroyed ~ ~
aasne arch deccivcr. w 8lS ,.Ssf
She has made mo thousand promiees.
and has broken every one Of them. -.
She has promised me early potatoes, sud
the ruin has drowned them Iats psssssse.
aud tho drowth has withercd them.
She has promised me summer squashss.
and the worms have eaten them winter
squashcs. ani the bugs have devoured
them.
She has promised cherries. and shs cus-.
culio has stung them. and they contain
live things. uncomcly to the eye aud nm
savory TO the tasto.
She has promised strawberries. snd tho
young chickens have cpvclopsd them. asd
the eye cannot scs them. lis-sss..
She has promised tomatoes, aud tho "a
hens have encompassed them, and the
hand cannot reach them.
No wonder Cain killed bis brother. las
was tillcr Of the ground. The wonder
is that he didn't kill his father, and then
weep because be hadn't grandfather to
kill. No doubt his early rose potatcss,
for which he paid Adam 81 barrel: had
been cut down by bugs from tho head-ua-
tcrs Of the Euphrates. His Penr::ylsania
whcu, had been win,er-l lillea. aad vasp |
worth cutting His Norway oats had gone
to straw, and would not yield fvc pecks
per acre. and his black Spanish watermel-
ous had been stolen by boys who had pull
cd up the vines. broken down his patent
picket fence, aud written scurrilous dog
gercl all over his back gatc. No wonder
he felt mad when he saw Abel whistling
along with his fine French Mcriuocs, worth
Ss head, aud wool going up every Day.
No wonder hc wanted to kill somebody.
aud thought he'd practice on Abel.
And Noah's getting drunk was not At
all surprising lie had become husband
man lie had thrown away magnificent
opportunities. lie might have had mo-
nopoly of any profession or blsiaess. Had
he studied medicine there wou,d not have
been another doctor within a thousand
miles to call him luack;' and every
family wonld have bought n bottle Of
e Noahs Compound Extract Of Gopher
Wood and Anri.Dclugc Syrup" AZ 8
politician, he might have carried his own
ward solid, and controlled two-thirds or
the delegates in every convention. As q
lawyer. he would have been retained in
every cnse tried ut the Ararat quarter ses-
sion, or the old Ark high court Of Admir-
atty. Bgt lie threw away all these advan-
,agcs aud took to agriculture. For long
time the ground was so vet that hc could
raise nothing but sweet fnC and bull rush-
es. and these at last became drug in thc
market What wonder tlat when At last
} he did &C, half peek of grapes that werc
not s,ung to death by Saphc's honey baes
hc should have male wine and drowned
his sorrows IN flowing bowl"
The fact is, agriculture would demoral.
} izc saint was almost saint when
wen, into it, I'm demon now. I'm a
war with everything fight myself odl
Of bed n, o'clock, when nll my better na'
, iure tells me to lie still till Z. | 6ghI
myself into the garden to work like
brute. when reason aud instinct tell me Il
stay in the house and enjoy myself like I
c man lgh, the pigs, the chickens. thu
|, lnoles. the birds. the bugs, the WORMS
i everything ia which is the breath Of lifo
: fight the docks, the burdocks, tho uul
r lens, the this,lcs, the grapes, the weeds
the roo,s--thc whole vegetable kingdom
| fight tho heat the frost, the rain, thu
$ hail--n short, fight the universe. ans
4 &c, whipped in every battle. l have nj
c more admiration to waste on the father o
4 George Washington for forgiving the dcs
# truc,ion Of his cherry tree. A chcrr.
d tree Is only curculio nursery. and tb,
n grandfather Of his country knew u. 4
!. have half dozen cherry trees, and tn
day my young George Washington Is 81.
e years old I'll give him ha,chst and tel
y him to down with every cherry trnsSn th
:. place,