The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-02-17

that he got more clear money OF his
garden and berry patch since he began
to read the books of gardening and the
papers he 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"
Il amt objectin' to them things"
said Mrs. Sparks, but what Tn findin'
fault with is that Jared an you are
allus sticlin' your heads together as il
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, land
the day planted them you were over,
you remember, and told me | would be
sure to have 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 Jared's a gs5S. deal alike
about a good many things" she assert
ed, IAN it's wonder to me how either
OF you ever git thing done. You pot
ter around an have Go have everything
in Jest such shape afore you'll plant n
grain, an the wonder is that you ever
raise anything. | don't believe in so
much fussin' an so many fancy crops
if they do bring in right smart o.
money. 'Tain't good for people TO read
so much an | 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 as good q man
ms there was in the neighhorhood afore
he got these high-lofty notions from
readin' novels an other lies, an when
he wasn't worlsin' he sot by the fire an
slep', an knew he wasn't somewhere
| plottin' mischief with somebody no
smarter than he is. Now he comes an
sets down an reads an blabs about
what he's goin' TO do raisin' this kind
| of q berry or that kind of 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 nor find fault;
but | declare TO goodness that Jared Is
enough to try the patience of u saint
sence you settled down on the old
| place. Sometimes | wish you had went
TO Guinea an staid there, aforc you got
done goin' 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
ly git wink o sleep from one weeks
end to the other thinkin' an worryin'
over one thing an another" =
Verify Jared was OF far from right
when he asserted that Mehitable 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-l ashing, for ] knew her
when l was boy and was used TO It
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 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 a minute, Hit, he called
| Mehitable went into the room, and
heard Jared say: Here's new dress
got ye; how dye like it?" n
And Mehitable said: 1T ye amt the
biggest Ounce ever see. You've gone
an squandered a dollar on lot Of cur
tain calico for me dress I'd look
pretty traipsin' around in dress made
o that, wouldn't /? If ever there was
man on earth that needed guardcen
you're that man. How many yards did
you get, for the lands sake?"
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
dollar m eighty cents. | thought
maybe you could make me two or three
pairs of overhauls and a wamus out'n
the spotted part, an"
Jared Sparks! If you don't beat"
and here she burst out 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 rake,
saying he would get the ground ready
and set the rawberries next spring.
H. n Carew, in Ohio Farmer.
'AiI the Same.