The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-06-12
Ghe Jl!,ribuue.
Ga rden Making In Danbury.-Interest-
Ing Particular of the Process.
Trcra the Dsnbury News.

From the Dsnbury News.
Wesuppose there is q time that Comes
to every man when he feels he should like
to have a garden. IF he takes such
notion he will Tell his wife of IT, This
is the first mistake he makes. aud the
ground thus lost is never fully recover
ed She draws her chair up to his, and
lays one hand on his knee, and purses up
her lips into whistle of expectation-
she vixen-an3 tells about her mother S
garden, and how nice it is to have veee-
tables fresh from the vines every morn
ing, and she will go right out and plan
the whole thing herself And so she
does. He takes his spade and works
himself into perspiration. and she tramps
gets under his feet and shrieks at the
worms. and loses her shoe and makes
him first vexed and then mad and then
ferocious After the garden is spaded
he gets the seed, and finds she has been
thoughtful enough to open the papers.
and empty thirteen varieties of different
vegetables into one dish This leads
him TO step out doors where be COM
muEas with nature alone for a moment
Then be takes no the seed and hoe,
and line, and two pegs. and starts for
the garden And then she puts on that
awful bonnet. and brings up the rear
with long-handled rake, and pocket
fnll of beans and petunis seed and dahlia
bulbs. While he is rlanting the corn.
she stands on the cucumber hills, and
rakes over the seed pan. Then she puts
the rake handle over her shoulder, and
the rake teeth into his hair, and walks
over the other beda He don't find the
squash seed until he moves. and then he
digs them cut of the earth with his
thumb. She plants the beet seed her
self. putting about iva feet of earth and
sod upon them Then she takes advan-
aaee Of his absorption in other matters,
and puts down the petunia seed in oue
spot, ana sfterward digs them Up, and
puts them down in another place. The
beans she conceais in earth wherever she
can find a place and puts the bulbs in
the cucumber hills Then she tips over
the seedpan again. and apologies. and
steps on two Of the best tomato plants,
and says, "Oh, my !" which in no way
resembles wha. he says. About this
time she discovers better place for the
petunia seed. but having forgotten where
she last put them, she proceeds to find
them, and within an increditable brief
of time succeeds in unesrthing pretty
much everything that has been put down.
After confusing things SO there is no
earthly possibility of ever unraveling
them. she says the sun is killing her, aad
goes over to the fence where she stands
for hours, telling the woman next door
about an aun. of hers who was confined
10 her bed for eleven years, and had
eight doctors from the city, but nothing
would give her any relief until an old la
6y-but you have heard It before The
next day a man comes to his office to get
the pay for a patent seed sower which
his wife has ordered, and he no more
gets than away before the patentee Of
new lawn mower comes IN with an order
for ten dollars. and he in turn is followed
by the cornsheller man, and the misera-
bic gardener starts for home to head off
the robbers, and finds his wife at the
gate with his own hat on. and Just about
to close q bargain with smooth-faeed
individual for a two hundred de.-r
moving machine, and pearl handled,
: lvory mounted haycutter. He first
knocks the agricult ural implement agent
on the head. and then drags the misera-
bic woman into the house. and locking
tho door gives himself up to his emo
tons.