Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-07-13

believe IN early NtBttdoicS' ilV
preferred to stand still and chew
his bit and stamp his forefCet
viciously and let the plough rest IN
the furrow. Perkins exerted his
powers of persuasion, bat all IN
vain. The horse only planted his
feet more firmly and declined to
move on. Then Perkins tried the
whip. The lriShman tried proianl.
ty. The animal was proof against
both. Perkins took him by the blt
and offered to help him by pulling
with all his might at his head
The horse declined the o0er with
thanks.
The sun was hot, mosquitoes
we're plentiful and attended strict
ly to business. The neighOOrs gath
cred te see the circus and brought
their dogs with them. All olthem
except the dogs-gave some ad-
vice. A good deal of it was tired
and proved Intellectual. At last,
Perkins got mad and INDUCED In
some torcible remarks. Mrs. Per
kins, with the baby IN her arms
appeared on the scene and asked
Perkins what he thought of himself
for giving away so, and sac asked
him where he expected o 90 to
when he died, both of which cOnun-
drums only made him the madder.
"Prick his hind leg with a pen
knife" said an old teamster who
was passing by with a load of fence
rails and climbed over the fence to
see what was going on. "Neyer
knowed that to fail to start EN-"
And Perkins pricked the hind
leg as directed. The effect was
electrical. The horse elevated his
heels, gave a snort, and plunged
of down the field, and Perkins
went up in the air as if shot from n
pop gun, and came down in a ditch
a rod off, and was hauled out by
the crowd, half suffOcated with the
muddy water. The horse went
right on till he came to a stone
wall, where he left the plough, and
struck a Decline for the barn of his
former owner, where he brought up
all right in due time, sweaty, but
triumphant.
Perkins gave his original pro-
prietor ten dollars to take him
back and hired his plOughing done.
de considered 1t cheaper.
He bought some books on farm
ing and worked by their instruc-
tions. He did not take any stock
in the advice of the old hayseedy
fellows who lived around in that
vicinity; he belieyed IN science.
He planted his early peas and
beans and corn, aud every day he
went to see if they were coming up.
At last. he was rewarded by seeing
the first green shoots of the peas,
and the next day the ground began
to crack open and rise up, and 10,
the beans appeared
But what was Perkins's conster.
nation to perceive that the beans
themselves-the beans Ii @ had
planted-had come right out OF the
ground on the top Of the shoots .
He told his wife about it, with
great distress OF mind.
"It must be that | put too much
phosphate in the hill, and it has
blown them right out of the earth.
Now, those beans should have stald
in the ground for the plants to have
rooted in and got their nourlsh'
ment from. That's the natural way
of things, and all l can do is to set
'em out right side down; bat it'll
be a tormented hard job "
"Tll help you," said the dutilul
wife. "We'll take it early in the
morning, while it is cool, and before
anybody gets round. | wouldn't
let Patrick know anything about 1t
if l were you, for it might make
him have less respect for you. lie
would think that you did not know
how to plant things"
SO, in the early morning, Mr.
Perkins and his wife went out into
the field and began transplantIng
the beats aud sticking the beans
end down into the ground.
OF course, one never can do any
thing privately if one tries, and old
Farmer Jones cut across lots, from
driving the oxen off to pasture,
and came down Oh Perkins and his
wife before they saw him.
"What in natur' are you two
ADDING Z" asked he, turning over
his quid and adding a fresh morsel
of tobacco to 1t, by way of assist
ing his understanding.
"My-er-my beans had little
too much phosphate in the hills,'
stammered Perkins, "an nd tn eJ
came up wrong end first, and We
thought we'd set 'em down right
GLAND of Goshe~ ~ said Farmer
Jones. "Strange that folks can be
so 'tarnal green Why, beans all
era come up that way. Where
have you been all your life that
YOU don't know beans ~
Mr.. Perkins never liked to heal
anything about beans afterward