Huntington independent. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1871-1874, 1873-08-28
The Value OF a Good Trade.

We had a man moving our door
yard yesterday. | watched him pref
ty closely for fear he would snip off
NY rose-bushes. put my shawl on
and sat on the grass, aud pretended
was keeping him company. lie is
man Of good sense, and he said q
great many sensible things. | re-
marked that moving must be his
trade, BE- did it so we'll, and made such
nice WORT
"Heb!" he QpiFed; "I'm jack of all
trades and master of none. can do
most anything that | take hold off,
aud he leaned aver and shaved the
grass neatly from about snarl of
rose bushes, a beautiful tanglo that |
couldn't pFEne Tor very tenderness OF
heart.
"Oh thank your l said you did
that as kindly as mother would dress
her babe. Any other paR would
have said; "Here's a dead branch,
Miss Potts. or, "yon is useless
shoot or, THAT bush yonder is a
sufferin' for the knife" It's my bush,
you see, and want it to grow as
wild, end ronting, apd riOtous, and
just as eItraVaguEily as it pleaaea. l
don't care if it leaps as high as the
top of the house. said |, a good deal
excited.
aWell, | carcal,te that il would be
the better of little trimmin, but, as
you say, it's we'll enough to let natur'
have her own way, just to soc what
all she can do when she takes &
notion. If vas a rep'er gardener
| s'pose | would have attaoted tha:
bush whether or no. | oiten wish
father had uppreaticed me to that
trade-poor man, he's been dead an
gone this many long year; he was a
good father, aud don't fud it in my
heart to bring up a wo7d o'blamo
agin him." sud here he leaned on the
haudle Of the scythe 10 coDiorta-
ble sort of way. but, Miss Potts
| think it's every mans duty to give
his boys trades. When father died
he left farm of one hundred and
sixty acres;there was mother, and VT
three grown hoys,and the two little
girls, and Johnny, aud grandmother
Well, we couldn't all have the farm
and We couldn't any more than maxi
a good living, and pay the preacher
t and the taxes, and school the child
rem, and meet an occasional doctor
bill; and so Jack and / talked it ove1
: one night, aud thought it did seem
) little hard, we resolved, fore God an
r ourselves, that we'd give up all righ
}. aud claim to the old farm to Tom
2, our oldest brother, if he'd care 70
| mother and the children, and do tn
part of dutifDl sOn and brother. l
4 did seem kind o'hard, stGikin' out t
] do for ourselves, two green boy
s who'd always been cared for. Jack
j always wanted more larniu,' he neve
z was satisfied, and so he went away t
school TO shift for himself as he be'
r could. Well he worried along sou'
how, until new he is qualified
d teach--he teaches 10 the winter an
n goes to school in the summer. /
taken shine to Milly Brown--sh
p was a modest lit,le hsrd-workin' ere,
T tur-and so we concluded 10 maFr
! and help each other along. We me-
} er regretted it; aud tboagh ! don
N QUA foot GLAND, and have DO trad
We have always nansged so that v
]. never had to endure much privatio
Be sure I've had to wear patch upC
5, patch, an Millys had to turn h
,r dresses bottom end up, an 10th
side out; we've got along grandly.
d "But, Miss Potts, its just as mu'