Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-04-04

editor ?"
said was.
"Have you ever edited an agricultural
paper before P'
NO. said ], "this is my first attempt" d"
VERY likely. Have you had any ex.
perence in agriculture. practically ?"
mo; believe | have not"
"Some instinct told me so, said the
old gentleman. putting on his spectscles
and looking over them with asp0rity.
while he folded his paper into convent.
ent shape. 81 wish to read you what
must have made me have that instinct
1t was this editorial. Listen and see il il
were you that wrote it.
"Turnips should never be pulled; it
Injuries them. II is much better to send
boy up and let him shake the tree"
Now, what do you think of that7-
l really suppose you wrote it,"
Think of itp" Why, think it is good.
| think /. is sense. have no doubt that
every year millions and millions Of BUSH
els of turnips are spoiled in this township
alone By being pulled in half-ripe con.
dition. when if they had sent boy up
TO shake the tree
"Shake your grandmother Turnips
don't grow on trees -
"Oh. they don't, don't they Well. who
said they did The language was intend.
ed TO be fgurative-wholly fgurative.
Anybody that knows anything will know
that | meant that the boy should shake
the vine.n
Then this old person got up and tore
his paper into small shreds. stamped on
them and broke several things with his
cane, aud said did not know as much as
COW; and thea went out and banged
the door after him. and, in short. acted
in such way that | fancied he was dis
pleased about something But not
knowing what the trouble was, l could
not be any help to him.
Pretty soon alter this. long, cadaver-
Gus creature, with lank locks hanging
down 10 his shoulders and weeks
stubbIe bristling from the hills and VAL
leys OF his face, darted within the doors,
and halted moiionless. with finger on lips
and head and body bent in listening atti.
tude. No sound was heard. Still be
listened. No sound. Then he turned
the key in the door, and came elaborstely
tiptoeing toward me till he was within
long reaching distance of me, when he
stopped and after scanning my face with
intense interest for while. drew fold ed
copy of our paper from his bosom and
said
There, you wrote that. Read it to
me quick. Relieve ME. suffer"
read as follows, and as the sentences
fell from my lips could see he relief
come. could see the drawn muscles
relax, and the anxiety go out OF the face.
and rest and peace steal over the features
like the merciiul moonlight over DESC
late landscape:
"The guano is fine bird; but great
care is necessary in rearing it 1t should
not DC imported earlier than June or later
than September. In the winter it should
be kept in q warm place, where It can
hatch out its young.
II is evident that we are to have back
ward season for grain. Therefore 1t will
be well for the farmer to begin setting
out his cornstalks. and planting his buck.
wheat cakes in July inst cad Of August.
Concerning the pumpkin. This berry
is fsvorite with the natives Of the In.
terror OF New England. who prefer !. TO
the gooseberry for the making Of fruit
cake. and who likewise give II the pref
ereuce over the raspberry for feeding
cows. as being more filing and fully as
satisfying. The pumpkin is the only
esculent of the orange family that will
thrive in the North except the gourd and
one or two other varieties Of squash. But
the custom of planting in the front yard
with the shrubbery is fast going out OF
vogue, for it Is now conceded that the
pumpkin as shade tree is failure.
Now. as the warm weather approach
es, an the ganders begin to spawn
Tho excited listener sprang toward me
to shake hands, and said:
There, there-ihat will do. ! know l
am all right now, because you have read
it Just as l did. word for word. But.
stranger, when first read 1t this morn
ing, said TO myself, never, never be-
lieved it before, Notwithstanding my
friends kept me under watch so strict,
but now believe am crazy; and with
that I fetched howl that you might have
heard two miles, and started out to kill
somebody because. you know, knew 1t
would come 10 that sooner or later, and
so might as well begin. | resd one OF
them paragraphs over again SO as to be
certain. and then l burned my house
down and started. have crippled sew
eral people. and have got one fellow up
the tree, where can get him If want
him. But thought l would call in here
as l passed along and make the thing
perfectly certain; and now it is certain,
and l tell you it is lucky for the chap that
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