The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-09-24

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"Great Scott, child Do you think
l hire man to spend his time diggin'
up posey- -beds?"
"Of course you do, or can! and I |
want more ground laid out for gar.
den; we don't raise half enough veee-
tables, and Iwant citrons and melons,
and strawberry bed set out this
year, tool"
"Why, Millie! what restless, uneasy
child you're gettin' to be. don't
know what to make of you, rely
don't. You used to be sech q chirpy
creetur."
"Well, pa, amt careless, harum-
scarum child no more; and the speak
er gave an involuntary sigh for the
vanished years OF content.
"You see, if I've got to live on q
farm it must be nice farm, and we
want all the good things VIC can get of
it, and have it look pretty too"
"Well, l guess if 1 an yer ma had
spent our time about purity fixins. we
wouldn't got it paid fora hundred
an sixty acres. There was Peter Len
nox, he went into bein' fancy farm
er; my, how he did shine around
spell, an then his place was foreclosed
on; flowers an crokay lawn, an fish
ponds didn't support him, an now the
mercy only knows what's become of
him!"
"Oh, he was lazy, and didn't man.
age his work right; but now you've
got the place clear, you might i'm
prove it a little, think"
"Well. l be. Pm a-buyin' some AL
derneys an machinary along as can;
there's profit in sech like"
"That's all we'll enough; but now
just bring the water into the kitchen.
and buy some paint, and grape vines,
and peach and ounce trees, and
shrubs; put blinds and piazza on the
house, and lay flag walk through
the yard, and"
"For goodness sake! Do you think
I'm made OF money, or that it grows
as easy as corn?"
"Oh, / guess you can find enough in
some OF your pockets to do all that.
1t won't take much"
"a sight you know about it. Who
do you think you be, a-settin' yourself
up to give orders jos as if-jes' as if
anybody was goin' to mind 'em."
"Well, you are, pa Lee; so don't fret
about it, but just find Dan and send
him along; Pm in a hurry; there's
oceans OF work to do''
Eyes, you're in too big hurry; you
amt a-goin' to turn everything topsy-
turvy round here"
"No, Imgoing to turn them straight.
Now just look at those old wagon
wheels lying there, and that heap OF
brush by the fence, and that dead tree
and dilapidated chicken-coop. Don't
you honestly think the yard would be
nice without them?"
"Well, yes, it might; it tmight-that's
a fact; but as for them other wild no.
tions OF yours, why they be wild, that's
myself, old as l be, if kin help it,
Millie."
"No,pa,I wouldn't if was you; but
if | conclude to give up going to the
city to learn dressmaking, Pve got to
have some nice things here; something
that l can be proud of and enjoy.
When l was little-going to school
and romping around, why things
seemed well enough; but now that l
help about the work, and 60 around
and see how other folks live and have
things, why want some changes for
the better at home"
eyes, it spiles children to 20 avis
itin'; they git their heads full OF new
tangled idees an git restless"
"What made you buy that harrow
the other day? that's O new-fangled
idea; but l guess we'll have some re.
pairs. You'll be proud of them your
self"
"Prido is sinful, child, an Pm bad
enough now. Why can't you be con-
She never stewed after things she had
not got; she's q dreadful good woman,
your mother isl"
Eyes, she is; she's too good to work
herself old and worn out before her
time, luggin' water, churning and do
ing lots of work that might just as
well be made easier. Shesnearly died
with the heat in that kitchen, when by
cutting window in the north side
and putting little roof over the door
to keep out the sun, 1T would be quite
comfortable in there; and then Just
set out a maple to shade it after
while"
"Dear me! Inever thought of that;
it is a terrible hot room in summer,
that's a fact!"
"Will you fix it? How it would
please motherp'
"Well, Pll-Tll see! Sometime when
Inject the carpenter I'll ask what it'll
cost, an if it amt too steep-why,
mebbe-"
That's settled then; tell him we
want it next week."
Mr.. Lee gasped for breath, and be-
took himself to the dusky quiet ofthe
barn, where, as yet, he was master.
Like as not she'll take notion to
boss the barn, an the critters, an
everything else 'forelong," he said to
himself and the Alderney, as he strok-
ed her sleek sides; "an' Miles got
such a way with, her that if she does
take a notion, she will. Declare if the
child amt gitin' to be reg'lar vixen;
an there won't be no peace till she's
got all them things done that she's
sot her heart onto. l wish she was
a leetle tot again, or else would be
kinder meek like her mother"
Meanwhile, gentle Mrs. Lee, who had
heard most OF the conversation
through an open window, was talking
to her spirited daughter:
How you do go on at your father,
child. Why, never asked for things
in such way in my life."
"And you never got 'em, either; but
l will, and you know Pm in the right,
too, for pa can afford to fix up the
place some, and all he needs is a good
stirring up to do it. You'll see what
a difference three months will make
here!"
"Well, you mustn't be saucy, Millie,
anyway. or tease tor things that's
extravagant."
"Don't you fear, ma Lee; but things
have got to be moving towards i'm