Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-07-04
He Would Have His Garden.

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We suppose there is time. that comes to
| every man WHEN he feels he should like to
have a garden. If lie take. sucb.a notion lie
will tell his wife of il. This is the first mis-
take he makes. and the ground thus lost is
never FULLY recovered. She draws her clair
up to bis. and lays one hand on his knee. and
purses up her lips Il 10 r whistle ofexpcctation
the vixcn). and tells about her mothers gar
den, and how lice it Is to have vegetables
fresh from Tie vines every morning. and she
will 60 right out and plan the whole Thing
herself. He takes the spade, and works
himself into a. per.riralion. and she lramrs
around under 4 friglliful s,ln-bonnct, and GETS
under lis feet. aud slirieks ut the wornis ard
loses her shoe, a;ni makes him first vcxed
then nls q, a;id then frrucions. After the
garden is spatled, lie gets the seed, and finds
that size has been thoughtful enough to cpcli
tile papers. and tispty thirteen varieties OF
different vegetables into one dish. This leads
him to step out doors where he can eomniunn
with nature alone for n moment Then he
takes up The seed, and Z iit,e, aad line and
starts for The garden. Aild then she puts Oh
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with a long ha1.ilt.tl rake. ;slfi ai,ocketful o!
be:,as and taaia seed and Galliia bs,ibs.
While he IS plai.ing tie corn she stands
Oh <tiae cucumber hills. and ,akes over
the see.l pan. Then She p,:s the rake handle
over her shoulder and the rake teeth into bis
'lair. aud walks over the other be:s. He
don't fi,id the squash seed until she moves.
and then he Gigs them out ot the srotiad
With his thumb. She plants the best seed
herself. putting just about two feet OF earth
and sod upon them. Then she takes adyan-
tage of his absorption in other matters, and
puts down the pet,ni;l scod IN one spot. and
afterwards digs them up, and puts them
down in another place. The beans she con-
ceals il tile earth wherever she can find q
niace, and puts eIIe bulbs into the cucumber
hills. Then she tips over the seed pan again,
and apologies, and steps on two Of llie best
tomatoe plants. and says, 20. my!o which III
no way resembles what he says. About this
time she discovers a better place for the Pc
tnnia seed, but having forgotten where she
last put them. she proceeds to find Them,
and within All Incredible short space OF time.
succeeds in uneartliins pretty much every
thing that has heen lut down. After con-
fusing thitgs 80. there is no eart ly possi-
bility Of eyer unrayrling them again, 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 hid eight doctors from the city, but
nothing would give her any relief until an
old lady---Dit yon 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
had ordered, and he no more than gets away
before the patentee Of a new lawninower
comes in with an order Of ten dollars, and
he in turn is followed by the cern-sheller
man. and the miserable gardner starts for
home to head off the robbers. and finds his
vile at the gate with his own hat on, and
just about to close bargain with a smooth
faced individual for a two hundred dollar
moving machine, and d 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 News.