New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-15

across as many times as I planned.
They must have cheated you, whoever
measured it-five or six yards"
"Oh, guess not, Millie Can't you
stretch it?"
Stretch it! Well, you just come
here and try. How much did you pay
for it, anyway"
'.Oh, there was a main long string
of it,
"Did you ask for forty yards, as I
told your"
eyes, / did; but when came to see
what a lot it was, took a leetle less;
there's good thirty-fve.''
"Well, It'll have to do; Pm glad to
get that much"
A few days later Mile said: "Pa, I
wish you'd let me have Dan part of
the day. want to clear up around,
and spade up some fower-beds.
There's lots to do around here"
.'Great Scott, child! Do you think
| hire man to spend his time diggin'
up poseybeds?'
''Of course you do, or can! and I
want more ground laid out for gar.
den; we don't raise half enough vege-
tables, and want citrons and melons,
and a strawberry bed set out this
year, too!'
"Why, Millie what a restless, uneasy
child you're gettin' to be. don't
know what to make Of you, rely
don't. You used to be sech a chirpy
creetur."
"Well, pa, amt careless, harum-
scarum child no more; and thes speak
er gave an involuntary sigh for the
vanished years OF content.
"You see, if I've got to live on
farm it must be a nice farm, and we
want all the good things we can get off
it, and have it look pretty, too"
"Well, l guess if 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, l think"
''Well, be. I'm a-buyin' some AL
derneys an machinery 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 jes' as if-jes' as if
anybody WAS goin' to mind EN-"
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 dol"
Eyes, you're in too big a hurry; you
amt a-goin' to turn everything topsy-
turvy round here
''No. mgoing 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 might-that's
g fact; but as for them other wild no.
tions OF yours, why they be wild, that's
all. | ain't a goin' to make fool of
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, I've got to
have some nice things here; something
that l can be proud of and enjoy.
When | was little going to school
and rompinq around, why things
seemed we'll enough; but now that I
help about the work, and 60 around
and see how other folks live and have
things, why l want some changes for
the better at home"
LES, IL SplloS cnllQren TO go avis
tin; they git their heads full OF new
tangled idees an git restless"
what made you buy that harrow
the other day! that's new-fangled
idea; but guess we'll have some re.
pairs. You'll be proud OF them your
self"
"Pride is sinful, child, an I'm bad
enough now. Why can't you be con-
tented an easy, like your mother.
She never stewed after things she had
not got; she's 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
we'll be made easier. She's nearly died
with the heat in that kitchen, when by
cutting a window in the north side
and putting a little roofover 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"
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