Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-06-05
The Charms of Spring.

w & suppose there Is 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 recovered
She draws her chair up to his, and laws
one hand on his knee and purses up her
ups INTO a whistle of eXpectation-the
vlxen-and tells about her mothers gar
den, and how nice it is to have vegetables
fresh from the vines every morning and
she will 90 right out and plan the whole
thing herself And so she does He
takes his spade and works himself into
a perspiration, and she tramps around I'M
der trighttul n-bonnet. and 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 outdoors
where he communeS with nature alone
for moment. Then he takes I'D the
seed and hoe, and line, and two pegs.
and starts for the garden And then She
puts on that awful bonnet and brings I'D
the rear with 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 find
the squash seed until she moves, and
then he digs them out of the earth with
his thumb. She plants the beet seed her
self, putting about two feet of earth and
sod upon them. Then she takes advan-
tage of his absorption in other matters.
and puts down the petunia seed in one
spot and afterward 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 ooh, my" which in no way resem-
bles what he says. About this time she
discovers better place for the petunia
seed, but having forgot where she last put
them, she proceeds to find them, and
within an incredibly brief space of time
succeeds in unearthing 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, and
goes over to the fence where she stands
for 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 would
give her any relief until an old lady-but
you have heard ii before. The next dav
a man comes to his office to get the pay
for patent seed sower which his wife has
ordered, and no more than gets away
before the patentee of new lawn mower
comes in with an order for ten dollars,
and he in turn is followed by the corn
shelter man and the miserable 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 a
bargain with a smooth faced individual
for a two hundred dollar moving
machine and a pearl handled, ivory
| mounted hay cutter He first knocks the
agricultural implement agent on the head,
and then drags the miserable woman into
the house, and locking the door, gives
himself up to his emotions.-Danbury
Ne,cs.