The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-12-11

working together we have built up
good business. We have come here to-
day to ask what you expect to do with
your sand"
ITO do with my saud?" repeated
Mary, in a puzzled manner. Why,
Tom and / were hoping to raise melons
for market next summer"
"Sweet simplicity" Mr.. Hunter said
to himself, but he was half vexed when
Yardly laughed aloud and poor Mary
blushed, looking to him for explanation.
You do not know that you have a
small fortune at your very door? We
want this sand to sell for molding pur-
poses. 1t is bought for making mods
for iron and glass, and is used in brick
yards, too. Oh, you may be glad, where
you have always been sorry, that John
was born on sandy farm! We will
come over and test the depth of the
sand tomorrow. | shall not be sur
prised if it is three feet deep in part,
and nowhere less than two feet deep;
and after all that sand is drawn off your
land will sell for just as much, perhaps
for more, money, and more readily,
than it would today"
had regarded him were now dropping.
I'VE will be able to tell you then how
much it will be worth to us; probably
$50 an acre. How many acres have
you?"
No answer came.
Pshaw, Mary, you never were
cry-t abyr'
No answer yet.
Mr.. Hunter rose and stood beside her.
Mary" he said, " has it been so
hard as this? that you can not bear
good fortune?''
Meantime Mr.. Yardly was talking to
the children.
When Mrs. Glassford recovered her.
self she went to an old secretary, and q,
unlocking it, produced the deed, yell
low with age, of seveuty-ive acres.
with a little map of the land drawn by
surveyor when Johns grandfather
bought j..
Mrs. Glassford was really glad when
the gentlemen went away. She was
half crazed with JOY
The next day the good for-nOthing
sand was measured and found to be
three feet deep on an average.
The farm was only a mile from the
river
Men with teams would begin hauling
the sand on Monday morning, and Mr..
Yardly would remain few days to see
that the work was well begun.
{" We may not be able to clear an
acre before navigation closes, but we
shall be at it again first thing in the
spring." said Mr.. Hunter.
81 suppose you will build new
house. When we come to dig down
three feet it will spoil the looks of the
old house, if we do not come close
enough to hurt the foundation. And
there will be money enough Why,
you can go anywhere you please for a
summer vacation. You may pick out a
likeier spot for new house to stand
on"
"Oh, don't, Tom, pleased! " and Mary
was almost crying again.
He opened his wallet. Here are
$3.50 to complete the bargain. Yardly
will draw up paper this minute, if you
would like it, Mary; but we hope you
do not doubt our honesty or good will "
After they had gone Tom and
Johnny came to their mother and rev.
erently touched the crisp new green
backs. 1.-TWO ffties, two twenties,
one ten. 1t seems like it was a dream"
said Tom.
"What does it mean?" asked Johnny
cit means shoes and stockings,
sugar, and a new lamp, caps and
dresses and two overcoats." Tom was
fairly shouting when he reached his
climax.
/" 1t means" said the mother, softly
"that the thirty-seventh Psalm is sing.
ing itself into my heart forever: Sc
shalt thou dwell in the land, and verify
thou shalt be fed"
1.-THE gentleman said we could build
a new house. Maybe by and by we
could build a teenty little barn ant
have a cow said the fve-year- old baby
dare say you will, Johnny; moth
ing is too good, too bright, too high tC
pray for, since my Psalm says, He
shall give thee the desires of thine
heart But on one condition, boys"
And what is that, mother?"
"That we Trust in the Lord and dc
good. '"-Mary Z. Miller, in ChriStim
Union.