Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-25

takes down the whip, and follow her. 1t
is dreadful to me that we two gentle, in
tellgent girls, can not coax and win and
govern horse according to theory.
hear Pampas start with Jump as Lou un-
latches the stable door. lie sees her, sees
the whip, and he-yes, he actually falls
upon his knees. Lou mods at him mean
ingly, lays down the whip. tells him to get
up, which he does, tells him to 20 to eat
ing, which he does
There, old fellOwm she says.
Pampas trembes when he hears her
coming, for nearly week. Once more
he has to be shown the whip at time
when his memory bids fair to fail him con.
I cerning, the art of backing. and then it is
all over with; and | am permitted to pet
him again. He is good horse for year
ut time, and very dear to the hearts of
his small mistresses. Then, usually, he
and Louise have to make some few fresh
arrangements concerning good behavior;
but ii is never now a serious affair.
By this time the money capital Of the
enterprise had become entirely exhausted,
and we are left dependent upon the butter
and eggs of our plan. During our first
week at cousin Janet's we had found that
they were not going to bring us the prices
we had counted upon. We could only
trust that there might be such u thing as
making good the deficiency in prices by
the production of larger quantities. We
experimental with the feed of our poul-
try, and at last we did succeed in bringing
what Louise called "a perfect storm Of
eggs"
Knowing it costs no more to. keep the
good COW than the poor one, we had paid
an extra price and had secured one of
extra excellence, upon whom our meal
and "middlings were not wasted gentle
Maggie with her little Maggie in the stall
adjoining. She was all that short-horn-
ed, ycllow-skinned, siender-fooed, black
nosed little COW can be; and we never
blamed her because our butter brought us
only twenty-five, twenty, eighteen, fifteen,
twelve and half cents per pound; that is
the descending scale from March to June.
we make, fancy, the verltable gilt
edged butter of the Boston and Phila-
delpha markets. 1t is sweet, fragrant,
sparkling, golden-tinted, daintily saltcd,
and dainty put up; but even from the
most fastldious private buyers we never
have received above thirty cents per pound
and during the greater portion OF the sum-
mer have sold it for fifteen cents, and
twelve cents, the same price which Mrs
Kroner, receives for her soft, lardy look
ing rolls; perhaps that is the most aggra
waiting part of it,
In due time also we found that oui
black cap raspberries would really 60 fol
ten cents per quart, and the bulk of oul
Strawberries for the same. We abandon
ed forever the small fruits item of ou
plan. We have our thrifty purple canes
and our Wilson and lucinda beds, where
with many back-ache and many dizzy
headache, we grow those great, rich
hearted, scarlet and crimson berries whicl
are chronicled us marvels by grateful
editors berries that one must need slicC
for the table; bat they are never for sale
thank you!
= However, by cheerlully ignoring severa
= of the items mentioned by the Labo
Commission as among the necessities o
the ordinary family, we did, week by week
. make both ends meet. For our very owl
personal needs, the little Arcadian incom
would really have sufficed; but there al
ways came up something to be purchases
which we mad not made account oil: TIL
pound of nails, the pane of glass, the fee
! for our fowls, horseshoe to be set, b
of repair upon wagon or tools, the roa
j tax, the pleasant little expenses for com
pany. 1t was, indeed, quite close alfai
y those first years. Even in the early week
g we dismissed the idea OF smoked ham an
dainty sausage, and devoted "Pin-cusl
ion " and Roly-poly" to the payment {
G taxes and the discharge OF debts for hire
labor. Since, however, we conjugate
d the Spartan verbs "To save" " and "T
I scrimp;" and the new year never did fin
> us iu debt. They were good days, full {
discipline and wisdom we would not HAY
C missed them.
1t was the busiest of all the springs;
e home has to be begun in so many diret
II tions at once-meadow, field, garden, o.
g chard, flowers and shubbery. All, thi
q setting of trees! With us the "arbor day
a stretched through u week, what wit
l. pear, apple, peach and cherry, evergreen
e lilac, rose, and locust, to say nothing
the vines and canes. confess to hou
70 when we toiled side by side in silenc
~ digging those holes Nature is no ga
II liant.
le Our tree-setting and early gardenir
i'd well out of the way, come corn pantin
N In consideration of certain suits " mat
rs for his little boys, cousin John sent ov
his horses, plough, and old Donald. Hi
le we coaxed to sit under budding tree, Al
le ourselves took possession of the hors
is and plough. had been longing to sho
k, Lou what could do; and truly, at cous
OF Johns had not thought ploughing
es very terrible, But found our stony, hil
IN field somewhat different from his soft, lew
er garden land. To my surprise and hel
instead of walking quietly along II
e. straight, loamy furrow, aH had mea
as and had led her to expect, Lou beheld /
40 pulled this way, then that, dragged ov
m, clods, forced into long strides, the plou
OK now lying upon its side, now leapi
.ce along the surface, until the trained tea
ng paused in mute inquiry,
ID We can plough, as said, but do l
he think it advisable Dozens of farmers
ou not scorn to do something outside, and
IN, Job of carpentering, ason-work thre'
, n ng-machine or the like, furnish the
nd selves with many comforts otherwise l
nd attainable. So | trust that we are nC
the less legitimately flmers because b.
his bit of Grossmakiug, or ather, fine sewii
5et we hire our ploughing and moving {
old whatever other work W. please.
,an We dragged and marked the four nc
l.