The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-08-13
FARNE WoRK.


The days aro getting long, but some
how there isn't time enough to do what
has TO be DONE | map out so much
work for the day, and when night comes
! haven't done il. I've got behind, and
cant catch up, That's bad. Ben Frank
lin said man ought to drive his work
and not let his work drive him. The
wet weather has got us farmers all in
stew There hasn't been but two days
in two weeks that we could plow My
corn is not all planted; my garden is in
the grass; potato slips are waiting for
the patch; the clover is nearly ready for
the scythe. If it was only the big things
that were pressing could soon catch
up, but there's so many little ones to
mix in it takes about half tho time to
tend to EN-. Ireceived orders the other
day from headquarters to have all the
palings whitewashed. Then again the
flowers have all to be taken out Of the
pit, and benches fixed up for 'em, and SO
/ had to 60 to the saw.mill for few
planks. The grape arbor had to be lat
ticed and the vines tied up, so / Ind to
60 to the creek for canes twas gently
suggested that large watermelon patch
was great necessity, and it took a
whole day 70 prepare the ground and
dig the holes and haul the fertile, as
Cobe calls It. Mr.. Theodore Smith re-
lated to Mrs. Arp as how he pulled
twenty-five melons from one vine, and
the smallest one weighed eighteen
pounds, and so I've planted 100 hills,
which will make 200 vines, and 1920
melons, weighing about 100, 900 pounds.
That's the hopeful way figured it ell
up for her, but I've seen women who had
4 more faith in her husbands work than
\ she had. She was working button
hole, and remarked that if raised fifty
she would be agreeably disappointed.
In laying out work, these sort Of jobs are
never counted. Then again, there'e
many an hour lost in waiting on the
children, the little chaps. They are OIL
ways hanging around for something.
Everything / do they want to do They
have got little gardens, and everything
/ plant they must plant. | have to tie
up their big toes most every day
and get splinters out Of their
fingers and pick 'em up when
they fall down, and be sorry q
great deal and comfort EN-. They've
got to wading in the spring branch, and
the maternal ancestor thinks snake has
bit EN- every time they holler. When
they get out Of sight she imagines some
baby-thief has come along and stole
EN- like they did Charley Ross, and so
/ have to drop everything and hunt EN-
up. But they are world Of pleasure, and
it does look like the more do for 'em
the more / love EN-. They tag around
after me most all the time, and drive
away the blues with their hope and
trust and childish philoSophy-their in
nocent unconcern about the future,
about trouble and want and suffering,
about politics and pestlence and mira
cles and suicides. reckon that good
little child is about the best Of all
created tEings, and don't wonder that
the scriptures tell us we must be like
'em before we get to heaven. I'm a
right good family barber, and was
shingling one Of their little heads TO-
day, when somebody came running in
and hoIlered, "The bees are swarming
the bees are swarming; come quick
ring the bell they are going off.
had been looking out for this every day
for week. Last fall / bought fv'
stands and came home and told my wifi
! had bought $4,000 head Of live stock
which would have made sensation, bu
. she didn't believe me, as usual, and wen
on with her sewing Well, had tn
!, hive all ready, but the trouble wa
!, about getting them down from the tree
3 for they were about thirty feet up an
i hanging down from a swinging limb.
!, used to be regular squirrel to clim
!, trees, but somehow I've lost the lick
I, and SO my 12-year-old boy undertoo
= :, the perilous job. He tied net over hi
2 head and went up like a cat, then tie
the rope to the limb as I threw tn
other end higher up over another linn
and dropped it down TO us, and then y
sent him up the saw and he cut off u
limb and il came down easy and slow
y the table and we. sprinlkled 'em vii
:. : sweetened water and brushed them
to the mouth Of the hive, and just hi
: no trouble at all hardly in getting the
!, housed. Well, did get popped on u
:. upper rim Of my left ear, and in fe
!. minutes it looked like the end Of COW