The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-28
A Garden Of Your Own.
What the Danbury Man ThInks About
the NLhIiGr.

tHt llhNteFs
The chief charm of having garden
OF your own is the fresh state Of the
vegetables which daily garnish your to
BILE. Any one who has always depended
on store for his supply does not have
the faintest conception of the superior
flavor, tone and elasticity Of vegetables
gathered fresh every morning from
your own garden. Aside from this ben.
eft, gardening is tllemost health-giving
occupation known tomnn, unless we OK.
cept that OF physician, which we don't,
There ia q tnRn who lives on the other
side Of our street who has garden, and
has fresh vegetables every day, our
folks say. We don't know anything
about that, but we do know that lie has
garden, because We sec him out in it
every morning, in shirtsleeves and slip.
pers, picking cucumber and squash
bugs. We know when he gets hold OF
one by the why he shuts his month and
fingers. Sometimes he doesn't catch
the ono he is aiter, and sometimes he
makes n half dozen passes at one bug,
Every time he makes one Of those passes
he says something. The first remark is
not very plainly heard, but the next is
quite so, and the observation TINT fol-
lows after the sixth unfortunate pass,
appears to go completely through our
head
He Jumps around this way for about
M hour, and having got his blood up to
fever heat, goes in and drinks cup Of
boiling coffee, and then goes to business.
At noon he goes out there to kill a
couple taofo Bugs, but doesh't do it.
He finds two hens from the next house,
in the cucumber patch. They have
scratched down to the cool earth, and
thrown the parched soil Of two cucum-
ber hills over their backs, and with one
eye closed in speculative Why, are
thinking Of the intense heat and the
short grass crop. When they see him,
and the preparations OF welcome he has
hastily got together, they get up and
leave. The first thing lie throws at
them knocks q limb from choice pear
tree, and the next thing, which is gen
orally pail, goes through 4 glass cover
to some choice flower seeds, and loses
its bail. He then goes into the house
and gets some more boiling coffee, and
says tho man next door is something we
never put in print, and goes to business
again. AT night he comes home and
kills bugs Until slipper time, and then
goes in with his fingers smelling as il
lie had shaken hands with twelve hun.
dred bed-bugs.
He keeps his boy home from school
to watch the garden, and guard against
the encroaclment of straying cattle.
The boy gets several other boys TO come
over and help him. They take half
dozen sheets out OF the wash, and put
up circus in the back part Of the yard,
and some vicious boy who HASN'T pins
enough to get in, leaves the front gate
open, and when the circus is in the
midst OF its glory, the cry Of "a COW in
the garden r. breaks up the perform
ance, and sends both artists and audi
ence in pursuit of the beast. When our
neighbor comes home that night to
gather vegetables fresh from the gar.
den, and smash bugs with his tingerand
thumb, and goes out and looks at the
destruction, 1t is altogether likely the
first thing lie thinks Of is the danger in
eating store vegetables which have been
picked some days before, and allowed
to swelter and wither in noxious bar.
rels, and how much better II is to have
everything fresh from the garden. But
we are not certain. Neither is the pro.
prietor Of the circus.