Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
Making a Garden.

We suppose there is a time that comes
to every man when he feels he should
like to have a garden. If he takes such
a notion he will tell his wife of it. This
is the first mistake he makes, and the
ground thus lost is never fully recov-
cred. She draws her chair up to his,
and lays one hand on his knee, and
purses up her lips into a whistle of ex-
pectation-the vixen-and tells about
her mothers garden, and how nice it is
to have vegetables fresh from the vines
every fresh morning, and she will go
right out and plan the whole thing her
self. And so she does. He takes his
spade, and works himself into a per-
spiration, and she tramps around under
a frightful sun-bonnet, and gets under
bis feet, and shrieks at the worms, and
loses her shoe; and makes him first
vexed, and then mad, and then fero-
cious.
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 he communes with Ma
ture alone for a moment. Then he takes
up the seed and a hoe, and a line, and
two pegs and starts for the garden.
And then she puts on that awful bonnet,
and brings up the rear with a long
handled rake, and a pocket full of
beans, and petunia seed, and dahlia
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. He don't fndthe squash
seed until she moves, and then he digs
them out OF the earth with his thumb.
She plants the beet seed herself, putting
about two feet of earth and sod upon
them. Then she takes advantage of his
absorption in other matters. and puts
down the petunia seed in one spot, and
afterwards digs them up, and puts them
conceals in the earth wherever she cal
find a place, and puts the bulbs in the
cucumber hills. Then she tips over the
seed-pan again, and apologies, ant
steps on two of the best tomato plants
, and says, ooh, my !" which in no wa.
resembles what he says.
About this time she discovers a bette.
place for the petunia seed, but having
forgotten where she last put them, sh'
!, proceeds to find them, and within al
| Incredibly brief space of time succeed
in unearthing pretty much everything
/: t lat has been put down. After confus
3 ing things SO there is no earthly posi-
, bility of ever u%nraveling them again
: she says the sun is killing her, and goe
4 over to the fence, where she stands fou
hours, telling the woman next doc
about an aunt of hers who was confine
+ to her bed for eleven years, and la
t eight doctors from the city, but nothin
? could give her any relief until an Of
lady-but you have heard it before.
s The next day a man comes to his offic
f to get the pay for a patent seed-sowe
J, which his wife has ordered, and he n
more than gets away before the patante
of a new lawn-mower comes in with a
s order for so, and he in turn is followe
by the corn-sheller man, and the mise
r able gardener starts for home to hea
IS off the robbers, and finds his wife at ii
d gate, with his own hat on, and jus
about to close a bargain with a smooth
h faced individual for a 5000 moving
Il machine, and a pearl-handled, ivor.
Is mounted h~ay-cutter. He first knocl
Il the agricultural-implemen agent on tt
IS head, and then drags the mlserab
woman into the house, and, locking tt
l, door, gives himself up to his emotion
l. -Danbuvu News.