River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-04-29

in their lives happened They bought
IA COW:
It's the darlingest little fawn-colored
Jersey in the world, isn't it, MarianP'
said Mrs. Pratt.
1T is, Susan. If I'd thought little
COW was so cute we'd haYe had her
long ago"
But what if she kicks?" suggested
Marian. "rd be afraid awfully If she
did that,
II must consult my farm books, -
said Susan, stOutly. LET me see.
Kicking cows-subject. Dairy. Oh,
yes! You strap her right hind leg back
to post.
Who's going to do it, Susan?'
dear me. never could do it in
the world, Marian
But fortunately Fawn was as gentle
as the creature she was named for.
They learned to milk her without
trouble. They got money out of
her, too. She gave far more cream
than they wanted for their own use
They sold it to few families who
could afford to pay for it. A little
girl whom they adopted delivered it
for them. A shiftless married couple
died and left homeless boy and girl
The boy was offered to them, but they
took the girl, because girls have the
toughest time of it in this world at
best, aud they determined to give one
of the sisterhood a happy childhood at
any rate.
Miss Plat and Mis- Pratt, they al
ways stand up for their own sect, said
old Mrs Bobberly.
Well, this last that / am telling you
happened ten years ago.
If you go to Squawhasset you will
see a pretty little house, L-shaped,
with verandas and bay window. "a
sweetscented honeysuckle vine climbs
the post. A tiny greenhouse close to
it is full of flowers and leaves. If yon
look you will see within it some vege-
table seed beds, too, for early lettuce
and raddishes and cabbages
But the chicken houses are the pride
of the establishment. They are very
large and well built, and cost more
than the mansion itself. They contain
incubatOrs and all the new improve.
ments.
The ladies bought several acres more
of ground. With their vegetables and
honey, their plums and Strawberries,
and the chickens, eggs and cream, the
two brave women made a handsome
living and laid up money. They found
that there was most to be made at
raising spring br0ilers. They gave
much attention to that with remarkable
success. But how they did work at
first, till their backs ached and they were
ready In dron II was healthy wOrly
though. They used their brains with
all their might, too, and thought and
planned SO that now they do not have
to work and toll with their hands any
more, they use more 'gumption' and
less labor.
They have been prosperous, thank
You; yes.
If You go past the pretty house late
in the afternoon this cold weather, YOU
will now and then see a handsOm phea-
ton. drawn by spirited horse, pause
at the gate. Two ladies wearing seal
skin clOaks, white fur robe tucked
about their feet, alight. Their hair is
grey but their cheeks are pink, and
their color is as clear as a girls.
1t is Miss Pratt and Mrs Pratt.
They have all of this worlds goods
that any body really needs. They are
happy too-happier than nine-tenths
of their sex. But their prosperity has
Feen won only by hard knocks and
trials. Sometimes now that they are
grey haired, they wonder if they are
not getting rather tired, and if there is
not at last land where to desire is to
will, and to will is to create.