The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-01-10
HMAMM OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

fafdcn ana Derry pfbcH blucc nc De@tHb
to read tie books Of gardening and The
papers he gets Of me than lie used 70
from his whole forty acrcs, besides not
working half as hard; and yonf Jersey
cowg gives more milk and makes more
butter than the three scrubs yop used
to keep"
II mint objectin' TO them things"
said Mrs. Sparks, tsbut what I'm findin'
fault with Is that Jared an you are
allns stickin' your heads together as II
you have some great secret, an instid
Of taLin' my advice he's got TO 20 over
an ask you every time he gets ready
10 do anything. an this year he lost his
hull crop o tatcrs Jest because he
wouldn't take my advice an plant 'cm
when the sign was right, because he
said the ground wasn't in the right
ORDER
~ lost mine, too" / replied, land
the day ! planted them you were over,
you remember, and told me ! would be
sure to have . big crop because it wal
the old OF the moon and the sign was
going down, whatever that a
How do you account for that7"s
''You an Jared's a good deal alike
about q good many things" she assert
ed, "ani it's a wonder 70 me how either
Of you ever git a thing done. You pot
ter around an nave to have everything
In Jest such a shape afore you'll plant a
grain, an the wonder is that you ever.
raise anything. | don't believe In so
much fussin' an so many fancy crops
II they do bring In right smart o.
money. 'Tain'tgood for people to read
50 much an ] know il, for people who
read git notions In their head an think
they're smarter than the common run,
an they git 50 sot In their ways there's
no gittin' along with them. These
farmers clubs is only another way o.
killin'time an gittin' red o. honest work,
an I'm down on the hull kit an posse
Of 'cm. Jared was as good a man
as There was in the neighborhood afore
he rot these Righ-lofty notions from
rcadin' novels an other lies, IN when
he wasn't workable sot by the fire an
slap', an | knew he wasn't somewhere
plottin' mischief with somebody no
smarter than he is. Now he comes an
sets tloXn an' reads an Slabs about
what he's roin' to do raisin' this kind
Of d berry or that kind Of a vegetable
till / git 50 sick an tired an. Worried
tliat I jest raise right up nm tell him
what ! think, though everyone knows
| amt no hand to jaw nor find fault;
but | declare to goodness that Jared Is
enough TO try the patience Of a saint
scnce you settled down on the old
place. Sometimes ] wish yon had went
to Guinea an staid there, afore you got
done gcin' to school. It's nothin, but
worry, worry, day in an day out, from
sunrise till dark, an all through the
night. an often an often | don't hard
1y git a wink o. sleep from ono weeks
end TO the other thinkin' an worryin'
over one thing an another.
Verify Jared was not far from right
when he asserted that Mehitable was
III 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. Ibid not care that ! was getting
a tongue-lashing, for | knew her
when. l was q boy and was used to il
for years gone by, and / also
knew that while Jared was getting
one word two OF them were for me.
Looking out of the window / saw
Jared comingtdown the road with sun,
dry bundles under his arm. Presently
he came in at the sitting-room door
with much ostentation.
Come here a minute, Hit, he called
Mehitable went into the room, and ]
heard Jared say: '.Here's a new dress
/ got We; how dye like it?"
And Mehitable said: IF ye amt the
biggest Ounce ever see. You've gone
an squandered a dollar on a lot of cur,
tain calico for me o dress. I'd lool
pretty traipsin' around in a dress made
o. that, wouldn't n If ever there was
a man on earth that neededa guardeer
you're that man.. How many yards die
you get, for the lands sake?"
why, you see,n said Jared, NKemr
said as how there was only thirty-twe
yards, and the last few yards was kind
O. spotted here and there with mildew
an he let me have the hull lot for {
dollar M eighty cents | though
maybe you could make me two or three
pairs Of overhauls and a wamus out'I
the spotted part, an
Jared Sparksl Ifyou don't beat
and here she burst ont laughing.
never heard anyone laugh as though il
did so much good. lslipped out ut the
kitchen door and went home.
Next morning Jared came over, ii
his working clothes, to borrow a. rake,
saying he would get the ground ready
and set the Strawberries next spring
III n. Carew, in Ohio Farmer.