The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-11-09
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/ ~SheetsP Pllow-casese Hawl Hawi
Hawp' roared the native. Potato bugs
don't trouble 'em."

"Sheetsp Pfllow-casesP Hawi Hawi
Hawp' roared the native. Potato bugs
don't trouble 'em."
LIGHT DAwNs.
"Ohr' simultaneously remarked he
and she as the true light stole into their
brains. Then they wentand examined
their potato vines. They were covered
with potato bugs Millions! 81 saw
them last week." said she, s'but
thought they were lady-bugs-at least
q bigger kind of lady-bug.n
We must pick them off," said he,
.t to save the potatoes. You must COM
mence picking our crop of potato bugs
tomorrow. What have yon got TO pick
them imp,
Nothing" said she. ''save the milk
pitcher" .,--....s
..Milk pitcher it is,'' said he. "Des-
perate diseases, desperate remedies.
We must commence tonight
She brought out the milk pitcher
Together they picked it full MANY
times and emptied the bugs in the bab-
bling brook which ran by their cottage,
which babbling brook carried many
of the bugs to the green potato fields
of their neighbors, and left them there
alive. They seemed to have picked all
the bugs off their vines that night, yet
it was not so. On arising and going
forth next morning they found as many
bugs as ever. They recuperative and
and all sorts of things people do. nos
want Is wonderful. Evil seems catch
ing, but good is hard to take" said
he. He was obliged to 90 to the city.
and there in the whirl OF business his
mind wandered to their little agricult-
ural cot and potato bugs. She all day
picked potato bugs alone, and drowned
milk k-pitcherful after milk-pitcIlerful in
the babbling brook. Yet next morning
the bugs had the start of her again
This WAS kept UP for several days
Meantime the swamp fern and skuIk-
cabbage got fresh start on the bean
and raddish beds and quite swallowed
them up. The potato bugs monopo-
lized the entire energy and attention
of this agricultural pair. Nor was this.
all : Pig-weed came. First, cautious
old Pig-weed, who had f1ourished there
for generations, poked his head out of
the ground. After accommodating, he
gave the signal. Anon by scores, hun
dreds and thousands, came other Pig
weeds. She waged with them feeble
warfare. What could the young wife
do, almost alone. against Skunk-cab.
bage, Swamp Fern. Potato Bugs and
Pg-weeda Nothing. ;Emboldened by
the success of the Pig-weeds, the
TRAMPs OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM
rushed in from all quarters. There
came Dock, Black-weed, Wild Pepper
grass, Mullen and Stramonium, Oh
Stink-weed.
They rayaged her little Hower-gar-
dan fHhnn A.
plants They ate up their sustenance.
They crowded them out of existence.
She laid down the hoe in despair. Ants
crowded along its handle. They erected
their habitation under it.
stHow green your garden is getting,''
he said to her one day. He had become
sarcastic. This was on or about the
18th OF June. Sadly she took her little
hoe and cut down a few pig-weeds, She
then laid it down and took it up no
more that season. There it lay, and
the pig-weed, the dock, the wild pep
per7grass, the skunk-cabbage and the
stink-weed came up around it and over
shadowed it.
How very green your garden has
grown" said he to her on the Sd of
August, 1t was very green. The
wicked weeds had run out both flowers
and vegetables. They had full control
of all the governmental departments of
that garden. They outvoted the orig
inal occupants ten to one. The Veg
etable Aborigines of the soil had re-
gained their original supremacy. They
climbed the fence and poked their
heads riotously and impertinently be-
tween the pickets. The accidental. va
grant sunflower was elected Mayor of
her garden The streets and avenues
she had so nicely laid out between her
beds was invaded by disorderly, acci-
dental pumpkin vine. The only sur
yiving rosebush was mobbed by pig
weed. Over all this ruin the birds sung
their matin songs and Nature seemed
as blithesome and JOYFUL as though their
kitchen garden had been a success
Prentice Aulford, -, the San francisco
| Chronicle.