The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1893-03-10

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with. Tootle charges fifty cents per dozen
for eggs, but his are an extra kind Of large
fowl that can be made to bring fo1r dollars
per dozen as early spring chickens by the first
of June. l can have at least thirty or forty
chicks for the June market and the proceeds
therefrom will take up certain note of yours
In the meantime the butter shall pay our
household expenses as we 70 along. There
shall be no butchers bill, nor any other kind
of bill, run up for future settlement. The
calves we will fatten and sell this fall, the hog
ditto. Uncle Remus advises me to keep the
litter of pigs until next year, when they will
fetch us something over a hundred dollars.
The eight acres of ground, for the use of which
we pay forty dollars, must be planted with
corn, and have already selected the seed. As
the land is particularly clean and of uncom-
mon good soil, the yield should be not less
than seventy-6ve bushels to the acre, which,
if corn comes down to an unprecedentedly low
figure, will still pay all expenses for seed,
rent, tillage, and leave US enough to fatten our
hogs after all.''
The deacon was silent from astonishment.
81 shall raise as many chickens as possible
through the heat of the coming summer; so
that the next spring l shall have eggs by the
quantity, when the market reports quite
good price, with supply less than the de-
mand.''
"You talk like farmer, Priss," calculated
| the daZed deacon. "When did you learn so
much, wonder?"
"Don't ask me questions, but promise me-"
giving him a tight squeeze.
She shook herself loose from him, and pour
| ed out for herself cup of bot tea.
"Very we'll; 60 to work and make me some
chicken coops and hen house, and fetch
| home my hens tomorrow, aud this fall will
| show square accounts with some folks know
Of"
In the course of time the cows were driven
| home, the chickens roasted in the deacon's
hen house, and the "female hog, with her sew
| en- children, occupied the attention Of the dea
cons daughter. On morning Prissy went
into the cellar and skinned, and strained,
and churned, and outside the deacon himself
with the spade and AK made good time among
the stumps, thereby saving hired help and the
ADDITIONAL cost.of a wood pile.
The deacon had lived all his life under la
w cloud. He couldn't cut wood, he said, be-
| cause it made him so tired. He couldn't work
at farming, because the weather was either too
hot or too cold, or too wet or to dry. He
| -,l,. ,.,,, ,It tho xubilo Of his nlaco of hns.
mess Che was photographer) and wait for
customers, because he "wanted to get out and
stretch his legs" But suggest the idea of an
| impossible enterprise to him, or talk travel,
and directly the deacon was your man.
He was utterly and abominably lazy and
selfish. He force Prissy to pinch and save a
dollar, while he would squander fifty, and
have nothing to show for what he had paid
out. Such is man-that IS, 50 much OF it as
went by the name of Deacon Dodge.
| One of the things the strong-minded girl
got him to do was to make fence, which she
| insisted should be hedge. A hawthorne hedge
she declared, was both beautiful and attract
i've, besides just as useful as any other.
So, under her vigilaut generalship, he deliv
cred some trees for the nurserymen and took
his pay in hedge plants, which she made him
set out aud attend to.
Little by little she put the deacon on his
met;le. until at last she herself was surprised
o find nnv much Sic had made him accom-
p Ill. Al the end of the first year he had
rubbed there one and half acres, put the
first coat of paint on the house, made the fence
dug the cellar, built outhouses, cut all the
fire wood and Il ade five dollars week be-
sides.
At the end of their first year Prissy found
she had sold six dozen chickens at four dol
lars per dozen, and had as many more to win
ter over. She had sold six hundred pound:
of butter, at an average of thirty cents pei
Mound, Two calves fetched twelve dollars
readily, and the fatted hog twenty-seven mort
Their household expenses had been just one
hundred dollars, asi lie from what she hat
raised in the garden, and the butter and egg
we're of home manufacture, also. She spent
not a penny for clothing.
Together they checked off accounts one e
vening, and to his intense surprise the deacon
found a little matter of four hundred and fift.
dollars to his credit, besides having mucl
better start for the next year.
He paid the balance due on his lumber, and
thankfully took up three other notes, afte
which he breathed more freely. The mex
year the invinc; BILE Prissy sold two hundred
dollars worth of hogs, sixty dollars worth 9
eggs, and ten dozen chickens, still keepin!
household and personal expenses at the low
I est possible point.
The deacon, too, had better lnck, or pc
haps he attended more strictly to his busines
, and at the end of the second year was ais
the death knell of the Unsuitable mortgage.
/ As this is no fancy sketch, but on the col
;, trary, is a veritable "leaf from life" canni
, state what the result was for the third year
q Miss Prissy's management.
But | saw the deacon the other day trim
ming his hedge, which was all white an
, sweet with bloom, and he tells me that Il
:, carpenters are busy at his house, aud that
shall have enough produce to dispose OF in Il
fall to take him completely out of debt.
ainly has the handsomest place in Il
ntry, and py far the most stylish house.
Prissy, her face is famed light brow
her hands are not quite so white a
IL as they once were-not $50 useless
;" she says, turning them over CAREFUL
showing the little cal]oused Jumps on
IS.
ut we are out of debt anyway, she a
triumphantly. "This thing of bei
ed by every other person one sees is an
but funny"
Forest Hill long outshine its neighbc
tand as a striking mem entO of one W