The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-10-27
TAKING UP SOME PLANTS.
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 My dear,' said Mrs. Spoopendyke, looking up from her plate, and regarding her husband earnestly. My dear, it is getting late in the season, and am afraid my plants will De spoiled by the frost. Don't you thivk ii is time they were taken in: -
 = don, know" replied NIT. Spoopen- dyke, laying down his paper and begging away at his breakfast. don't think any thing wifi spoil those measly shrubs. They never bear anything, and l should think they would do as well out doors all winter as anywhere else
 Yes, they do bear, too" demonstrated Mrs Spoopendyke. springing up in de- fense of the scrubby old bushes she had nursed for three or four years with the most exemplary patience. One of them had bud on last spring, and if they are kept Tn the house this winter, they will do splendidiy next season."
 = fraps so.' saiffed Mir. Spoopendyke. If you think so, why don't you take 'em up:'
 Won't you do it. dear = smiled Mrs. Spoopendyke, sweetly. Il don, think I ei4A SA4Vib oIk VIII ollOW yol how. and wish you would take them up."
 Come on.' replied Mr. spcopenkyke. dropping everything and preparing for the fray. III get those precious orchids ap n abou, minute. Come out and point your nnger al inc ones you are most so.eI:ous about, and then watch the operaiion.
 Mrs. Spoopendyke pu, on her bonne, and followed her husband into the garden.
 You want 10 be 3 little careful with some of them" she suggested. A good many of them are tender plants and wan, to be handled gingerly.
 You trust me- retorted Mir. Spoopen- dyke. grabbing rose bush with both hands and giving a prodigious Jerk Dog gas, the bush " he roared. as his hands slipped off, leaving two-thirds Of the skin behind. Is that the thing you wanted handled ;enderly: Got any more of these sensitive exo,ics that can I, stand the frost: Is this the thing that had bud on last spring. and he took fresh hold and ripped al the flln, vindic- ;.vely. Once more he slipped and left lilt.e more hide on the thorns.
 didn't mean that one squealed Mrs. Spoopendyke, her attention called for the hrst time 10 the bush he was hauling al. :. That one IS 10 be covered Up with straw.
 Oh, this IS to be covered up with straw. IS | demanded Mir. spoopendyke. mois;enng hls hands and preparing for a flesh attack. Ks understand the thing, this particular shrub wasn', :o come up. All right. Only the shrub and l are looking a, il from differen, standpoin,s. The shrub and you appear to see t alike, but have go, hold oi the tail of an impression that ], IS very liable 10 come up or have me for compan, until it begins 10 bud again. Now. let's see whose right; " and Mr. Spoopendyke went al the bush again with srim deter mina;lon to conquer. Bu, the bush held on. and in five minutes Mir. Spoopenkyde had eii enough skin on the stalk 10 make pair of gloves.
 Try some of the others" said Mrs. Spoopendyke, in distress. Begin on some of those little ones am more particular about those"
 /" won't" yelled Mir. Spoopendyke, gathering fresh energy from defeat, Think those little ones will come up any quicker fl they see me licked by this big one. Stand back and give me room Someihlng Is going 10 give way new. or the bottom of this garden is coming ou, and once more the worthy gentleman went al his enterprise with porten,ous coun:enance.
 This time the bush came up more sud- denly than he had expected i, would. and he landed on his back among the other plants.
 Told you so'" he growled, as he hred the obnoxious bush over the fence Another time you make up your mind 10 wrap thing like that in straw, you do 1t before catch hold of il, if you want me 10 save enough hand 10 tell my fer tune by. Next. Point out the additional greens 10 be rescued from the biting blasts of winter. This one of 'em ?" and he caugh, hold of a tough old seranium Come into the house out of the cold :" he cried. apos,rophizing the plant. Le; the fate of the other fellow be warning unto you all no, 10 uile with Spoopen- dyke. Come forth from the ,eeming earth and be blessed with light and warmth in the garrett. and he took a death grip on the plant halt way between the root and the top. " Le, there be no holding back. but draw nigh and be saved." and he leaned back, the leaves glided through his torn hands and doxn he came with a thump that shook the ground under him. ' Another candidate for straw" he howled. as he made another dive for the enemy. One more dropping grave dec oratlon born 10 blush unseen and waste its Spoopendyke on the surrounding dis ,riots' Let there be no misunderstanding abou, this. Let ii not be said by coming generations tha, this dropping old ghost of departed perfumes did no, catch fully or 10 my peasly designs" and he jumped a, the bush and wound i, around his hands. The question before ,he house IS. din or Spoopendyke. shall the ground absorb him. or shall the dod gas,ed fruit oi much cultivation le, so its hold and