Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-05-26
NO. 1914.
A DANBURY GARDEN.

we suppose there is time that comes to
every man when he feels he should like to
nave garden. If he takes such notion
ne VIII tell his wife of it. This is the mis-
take ne makes and the ground thus lost is
never fully recovered. She draws her
CHAIR up to his, and lays one hand on his
knee, and purses up her lips into whistle
OF cXpectatlOn-the viXen-and tells about
her mothers garden. and how nice il is to
nave vegetables fresh from the vines every
morning, and she will 60 right out and
plan the whole thing herself And so she
does. lie takes his spade, and works him.
sell INTO u perspiraton. and she tramps
around under his feet and shrieks at the
worms, and loses her shoe; and makes
him first vexed. and then mad, and then
fcrocious.
After the garden is spaded he gets the
seed and finds she has been thoughtful
enough to open the papers. and empty thir-
teen varieties of different vegetables into
one dish This leads him to step out doors
where he communes with nature alone for
for moment. Then he takes up the seed
and a hoe, and Il line, and two pegs, and
starts for the garden. And then she puts
on that awful bonnet, and brings up the
rear with Il long handled rake, and pocket
full of beans and petunia seed, and dah-
liza bulbs
While he is planting 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 beds
lie don't find the squash seed until she
moves. and then he digs them out of the
earth with his thumb. She plants the beet
oh
earth and sod upon them. Then she takes
advantage of his absorption in other mat
tiers, and puts down the petunia seed in
one spot. and afterwards digs them
up, and puts them down in another
place. The beans she conceals in
the earth wherever she can find a place.
and puts the bulbs in the cucumber hills.
Then she tips over the seed pan again,
and apologies, and steps ON two of the
best tomato plants, and says, "Oh, my ~
which in no way resembles what he saws.
About this time she discovers "A better
place for the petunia seed, but having for
cotton wheIe she last put them, she pro-
ceeds TO find them, and with an incredi-
bly, briet space of time succeeds in un-
| earthing pretty much everything that has
been put down. After confusing things
so there is no earthly possibility of ever
uuravelling them again. she says the sun
is killing her, and goes over to the fence
where she stands four hours, telling the
woman next door about an aunt of hers
who was confined to her bed for eleven
years, and had eight doctors from the city,
but nothing could give her any relief until
an old iady--but You have heard it be-
fore.
The next day man comes to his Office
to get the pay for a patent seed-sower
which his wife has ordered and he no
more than gets away before the patentee
OF a new lawn mower comes in with an or
der for ten dollars, and he in turn is fol-
lowed by the corn-sheller man. and the
miserable gardener starts for home to
head of the robbers, and finds his wife at
the gate, with his own hat on, and lust
about to close IL bargain with u smooth
laced individual for II two hundred dollar
mowing-machine, and IL pearl-handled,
ivory-mounted hay cutter He first knocks
the agricutural-implcment agent on the
head, and then drags the miserable wo-
man into the house, and, locking the door,
giving himself mp to MS emotions.-t Dan
bury News.