The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
OUR HOMECOMING.
From the American Rural Home.

my spirits: we v car succeed in
making this old broken down habita-
ton fit to live inl" and /, the bride OF
q week, laid my head on myhusband's
shoulder and INDUCED in a good old
fashioned cry.
"It is a hard looking place, I must
admit" said VIII; "but you see, little
one, father has been unfortunate, and
this old place was all he had to give
me towards making & start In life,
Suppose we put our two heads togeth-
er and try and make the old place
blossom like the rose"
Wills CHEEKY voice, and the hopeful
view he seemed to take concerning the
situation, aroused my ambition. ]
put my arms around the neck of the
great strong fellow and promised to
aid him in everything that he felt able
to undertake.
The next day we laid out a plan OF
operation and proceeded to act on it
without delay.
Years ago there had evidently been
quite a nice little garden in front ofthe
house; but now the ground was COM
pletely covered with a heavy growth
of noxious weeds. The fence what re-
manned of it) appeared to be OF very
little use except as a resting place for
a score of distressed looking chickens,
evidently the property Of some one
worse off than ourselves.
Will and | spent two whole days in
tie exhilarating occupation of pulling
up great green stalks, that had "set
and sot" until they had, beyond all
possibility of a denial, aabout tux
root"
We concluded to arrange the front
yard before we turned our attention
to the vegetablegarden. VIII loosened
the rich earth with spade and hoe,
whilst | welded the rake in such good
earnest that the whole surface OF the
ground soon presented an appearance
sufficiently smooth toconvince us that
it was only necessary to plant the
seed, in order TO have a lovely collec-
tion of flowers.
Weheld aconsul5ation of-war, sup
pose / must call it, for we intended to
totally annihilate theremnant offence,
that needed but a pushto layitflat on
the ground.
In looking through the stableloft we
found three great coils of heavy wire.
1t had evidentally been the intention
of some one to use the wire in the con-
~struction of a fence; but like the "best
laid plans of mice and men" the pro
iect had been a failure.
Suggested to Will that it would be
the easiest thing imaginable to put up
q fence. He smiled-not in a way that
was f'childlike and bland" but as
though he felt theleast bit incredulOus
concerning the feasibility of the plan.
However, he went to work in such q
determined way that he bid fair to dis
tinguish himselfin the art offence max
Eg.
From q planning s5he vicinity he
procured a number o ffiat stakes, about
four feet in length; with a large gimlet
he bored three holes in each stake. Tc
expedite matters O man was hired for
day to help drivethe stakes into the
ground, and to assist in putting the
wire through. 80,
One week from the day or which vii
put his spade into the grOunc, thefence
wss completed; q coat of green paint
and a row of small shrabbery planted
alongthe inside, gavoi it q very attract
i've appearance. We were amply re
warded by hearing a neighbor who re
sided nthe vicinity, declaretbat then
young people up to Hubb's farm beat
everything the way they are fixmi VI
things"
The next thing to be taken In hand
was the veranda that extended alons
the front and side of the house. w
planted a row OF Mexican vines, ther
started toward the wood shed for the
purpose Of ransacking and old; too
chest in the hope Of finding q quantity
of stout Irvine; fortunately we came
across q roll of thin wire, which woulc
be far superior to ordinary twineIn TN
formation Of asupportfortheclimD
vines a row az small nails weredrlver
along the under part o~ftheralling, ane
q similar row along the wood work De
low the caves. The wire was ther
wound around each nail, upanddown
until it was sufficiently strongto acca q
q support for the vines.
One bright morning while we were q
breakfast, we heard some one pause \
front Of the house; the next moment !
miserable specimen Of humaLity push
edhisway into the room. bis ciotne'
were ragged and his facs was positive
ly brown with dirt that had propaDl.
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