The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-01-28
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that he got more clear money on his
garden and berry patch since he began
TO read the books Of gardening and the
| papers he gets Of me than he. used 10
from his whole forty acres, besides not
working half IS hard; and your Jersey
COW gives more milk and makes more
butter than the three scrubs you used
to keep
II amt objcctin' TO them things. I"
said Mrs. Sparks, but what I'm andin'
fault with Is that Jared an you are
aiIus stickin' your heads together as II
you have some great secret, an instid
Of takin' my advice he's got to go over
an ask you every time he gets ready
TO do anything. an this year he lost his
hull crop o taters Jest because he
wouldn't take my advice an plant 'em
when the sign was right, because he
said the ground wasn't in the right
order"
II lost mine, too" | replied, "and
the day / planted them you were over,
you remember, and told me ! would be
sure to have q big crop because II was
the old Of the moo and the sign was
going down, whatever that means.
How do you account for that?"
you an Jared's a good deal alike
about a good many things she assert
ed. ''an' it's a wonder to me how either
Of you ever git a thing done. You pot
ter around an have 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 b,
money. Tain't good for people TO read
so much an l know IL, for people who
read git notions In their head an think
they're smarter than the common run,
Nan' they gil so sot in their ways there's
no gittin' along with them. These
farmers clubs Is only another way o.
KILN time an gittin' redo o. honest work,
an I'm down on the hull kit an posse
Of 'em. Jared was as good a man
as there was In the neighborhood afore
he got these high-lofty notions from
rcadin' novels an other lies, an when
he wasn't workin' he sot by tho fire an
slep', an | knew he wasn't some where
| plottin' mischief with somebody no
smarter than he is Now he comes an
sets down an reads nm slabs about
what he's goin' to do raisin, this kind
Of u berry or that kind Of a vegetable
till ] git so sick an tired an, Worried
that | jest raise right up an tell him
what / think, though everyone knows
| amt no hand to jaw non End 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 you had went
to Guinea an staid there, aforc you got
done gCin' TO school. It's nothini but
worry. worry, day in an day out, from
sunrise till dark, an all through the
night. an often an often | don't hard
" git a wink O. sleep from one weeks
end 70 the other thinkin' an, worryin,
ove n thing an another"
Verify Jared was not far from right
when he asserted that Mchitablc 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. ! did not care that ! was getting
a tongue-.ashing, for ! knew her
when ! was q boy and was used to it
for years gone by, and also
knew that while Jared was getting
ono word two Of them were for me.
Looking out of the window saw
Jared coming down the road with sun
dry bundles under his arm. Presently
he came in al the sitting-room door
with much ostentation.
Come here a minute, Hit he called.
Mehitable went into tho room, and |
heard Jared say: Here's q new dress
l got We; how dye like it?"
And Mehitable said: IF We amt the
biggest Ounce ! ever see. You've gone
an squandered a dollar on a lot Of cur
tain calico for me a dress. I'd look
pretty traipsin' around in o dress made
o. that, wouldn't II If ever there was
a p on earth that needed a guardeen
you're that How many yards did
you get, for the lands sakcg"
Why, you see" said Jared, Kemp
said as how there was only thirty-two
yards, and the last few yards was kind
o. spotted here and there with mildew,
an he let me have the hull lot for a
dollar m eighty cents. l thought
may - you SOulu MiahS me Two OF three
pairs of overhauls and a wamus out'n
the spotted part, an
Jared Sparks! If you don't beat"
and here she burst ont laughing. i
never heard anyone laugh as though it
did SO much good. \ slipped out at the
kitchen door and went home.
Next morning Jared came over, in
his working clothes, to borrow a rake,
saying he would get the ground READY
and set the straw berries next spring.
H. n Carew, in Ohio Farmer.