The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-26

ell worked up 30 wanted To go 10 work
On farm.
ssThen an old deacon that belongs to
our church, who runs q farm about eight
miles out of town, he came on the scene
and said he wanted boy and If would
60 out and work for him he would be
easy on me because he knew my folks
and we belonged 10 the same church.
can see it now. II was all put up job
on me, just like they play three card
monte on fresh stranger was toob
in. By gosf., have been out there
week, and here's what there is left OF
me. The only way l got chance to
come to town was TO tell the farmer
could sell cabbages to you for shilling
apiece. / knew you sold them for 10
cents, and thought that you would give
a shilling. So the farmer said he would
pay me my wages in cabbages at a shil-
ling apiece and only charge me 81 for
the horse and wagon TO bring them in.
So you only pay cents. Here are ~
cabbages, which will come to 90 cents.
i pay 81 for the horse, and when 1 get
back to the farm l owe the farmer &c
CtfllS, Dtcluts WOihliS ~ Ntth AOA hONh
ing. Oh, it is all right. i don't kick,
but this ends farming for Hennery. l
know when have got enough of an easy
life on farm. / prefer hard life
breaking stones on the streets-to an
easy, dreamy life on farm"
"They did play it on you, didn't theyT
said the grocery man. But wasn't the
old deacon good man to work for?'
"Good man nothing!" said the boy as
he took up piece of horseradish and be-
gan to crate it on the inside of his rough
hand. II tell you there's a heap OF
difference in deacon in Sunday school
telling about sowing wheat and tares
and deacon out on farm in hurry
season, where there is hay to get in and
wheat to harvest all at the same time. /
went out to tho farm Sunday evening
with the deacon and his wife. and they
couldn't talk too much about the nice
time we would have and the fun, but
the deacon changed more than 40 degrees
In five minutes after we got to the farm.
He jumped out of the wagon and pulled
off his coat and let his wife climb ont
over the wheel and yelled to the hired
girl to bring out the milk pail and told
me to fly around and unharness the
horse and throw down q lot of hay for
the work animals, and then told me to
run down to the pasture and drive up a
lot of cows.
"The pasture was halls q mile away,
and the COWS were scattered around in
the woods, and the mosquitoes were
thick, and ] got all covered with mud
and burrs and stung with thistles, and
when got the cattle near to the house
the old deacon yelled to me that was
slower than molasses in the winter, and
then took club and tried to hurry the
cows, and he yelled at Inc to stop hurry
ing cause / would retard the flow of
milk. BY gosh, / was mad! asked for
a mosquito bar to put over me next time
! went after the cows, and the people all
laughed at me, and when I sat down on
the fence to scrape the mud off my Sun
day pants the deacon yelled like he does
In the revival, only he said: Come, come!
Procrastination is the thief of time. You
get up and hump yourself and go and
feed the pigs He was SO darn mean
that could not help throwing bur-
dock burr against the side of the cow he
was milking. and it struck her right in
the flank on the other side from where
the deacon was.
"Well, you'd a died to see the cow
jump up and blat. All four of her feet
were off the ground at time, and l
guess most OF them hit the deacon on his
Sunday vest, and the rest hit the milk
pail, and the cow backed against the
fence and bellered, and the deacon was
all covered with milk and COW hair, and
he got up and thrswed the three legged
stool at the cow and hit her on the horn,
and it glanced off and hit me ON the
pants just as went over the fence to
feed the pigs. / didn't know deacon
could talk so sassy at COW and come so
near swearing without actually saying
cuss words. Well, lugged swill until
was homesick to my stomach, and then
/ had to clean off horses and go to the
neighbors about a mile away to borry
lot of rakes to use the next day. was
SO tired / almost cried, and then / had
to draw two barrels of water with well
bucket to cleanse for washing the next
day, and by that time wanted to die.
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