The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-17


papers The gets of me than he used to
from his whole forty acres, besides not
working half as hard; and your Jersey
COW gives more milk and makes more
butter than the three scrubs YOU used
to keep"
II amt objectin' to them things, e"
said Mrs. Sparks. but what I'm findin'
fault with is that Jared an you are
nllus sticiin' your heads together us if
You have some greut secret, an instid
of talsin' my advice he's got to 90 over
on ask you every time he gets ready
TO do anything. an this year he lost his
hull crop o. tatcrs jest because he
wouldn't tale my advice an plant 'cm
when the sign was right. because he
said the ground wasn't in the right
order"
II lost mine, too" replied, land
the day planted them you were over,
you remember, and told me would he
sure to have n big crop because it was
the old of the moon and the sign was
going down, whatever that means.
How do you account for that?"
You an Jarcd's IL good deal alike
about good many things" she assert
ed, AN it's wonder to me how either
of you cvei git n thing done. You pot
ter around an have to have everything
in jest such shape aforc you'll plant
grain, an the wonder is that YOU ever
raise anything. l don't believe in SC
much fussin' an so many fancy crops
if they do bring in right smart O.
money. faint good for people to read
SO much an l know it, for people who
read git notions in their head an think
they're smarter than the common run,
an they git so sot in their WAYS there's
no gittin' along with them. These
farmers clubs is only another way O
KILN time an gittin' red O. honest work.
an I'm down on the hull kit an posse
of EN-. Jared was rs good man
as there was in the ncighborhood afore
he got these high-lofty notions from
rcadin' novels an other lies, an when
he wasn't workin' he sot by the fire an
slep, an knew he wasn't somewhere
plottin' mischief with somebody nc
smarter than he is. Now he comes m
sets down an reads an 5labs about
what he's goin' to do raisin' this kind
of a berry or that kind of n vegetable
till git so sick an tired an Worried
that | jest raise right up an tell him
whit l think, though everyone knows
amt no hand to jaw nor fluid fault
but declare to goodness that Jared is
enough to try the patience of saint
scDcc YOU settled down on the old
place. Sometimes l wish You had went
to Guinea an staid there, nforc YOU got
done gCin' to school. It's nothin' bu,
worry, worry, day in an day out, from
sunrise till dark, an all through the
night, an often an. often 1 don't hard.
~ gita wink o sleep from one weeks
end to the other thinkin' an worryin
over one thing an another"
Verify Jared was n OF far from right
when he asserted that Mehitablc was
In the habit of ''runnin on" for now
her tongue was going and her iron was
rubbing the garment over for the
tenth time before she bethought her.
self. l did not care that was gettinu
tongue-lashing. for knew heI
when was u boy and was used to il
for years gone by, and 1 also
knew that while Jared was gettinp
one word two of them were for me.
Looking out of the window l saw
Jared coming down the road with sun.
dry bundles under his arm Presently
he came in at the sitting-room door
with much ostentation.
Come here minute, Hit, he called
Mehitable went into the room, and
heard Jared say: Here's new dress
got We; how dye like it?"
And Mehitable said: "If We amt the
biggest Ounce ever see. You've gone
an squandered dollar on lot of cur
tain calico for me dress. I'd loob
pretty traipsin' around in q dress made
o that, wouldn't I? If ever there was
man on earth that needed n guardcer
you're that man. How many yards die
you get. for the lands sake?'
why, you scc," said Jared, 'Kemr
said as how there was only thirty-twc
yards. and the last few yards was kline
O. spotted here and there with mildew.
an he let me have the hull lot for
dollar N eighty cents. I thought
maybe you could make me two or three
pairs OF ovcrhauls and q wamus out'r
the spotted part, am
Jared Sparks! If you don't beat"
and here she burst out laughing.
never heard anyone laugh as though II
did SO much good l slipped out at the
kitchen door and went home.
Next morning Jared came over, ir
his working clothes, to borrow a rake,
saying he would get the ground ready
and set the Strawberries next spring
HI. n. Carcw, in Ohio Farmer.
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