The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-06-28

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THE GENTLE SHEPHERD.
to build farms, but we begin to plant
and SOW without having first put in our
wires and subways. Then the showers
wash our cornfields into the river far
below, leaving the farm itself perfectly
destitute of soil. A farm may thus be-
come too neat for things to grow upon.
I have neighbor who has a beautiful
brownstone front farm, with basement,
near Possum Trot, this state, and you
could walk all over it in white silk
socks without soiling the soles Of your
feet
I bought three farms, however, and
putting one right on top Of the other
I've got what call soiled farm. By
buying three farms one above the other
and watching wet season, when small
farms may be easily shuffaed, slid one
over the other until now I'll not have
to get stonemason to come and plant
my potatoes for me.
Billie Baldwin, the butcher, came
over day before yesterday to buy my
sheep and little eve lambs I shall not
be gentle shepherd boy on and after
this date.
Last year I bought nine sheep that
thought would look we'll dotting the
landscape. If had not been an author
Of renown, doubtless I should have been
q painter. When I had bought Buck
Shoals, I turned to my wife and said:
This is splendid. Now what shall we
get to dot the landscape with?''
A landscape gardener told me that
sheep were used q good deal in the old
country. he was an imported gardener.
with large blue girl tattooed on his
arm. He had husky voice and used
to sing, 1.-The corn is wavin, Annie
DEAR That's why his voice was so
husky.
He got hold of the key of my wine
cellar and drank up the whole bottle.
Twas going to hire him for a year,
but when I found that he was of disso-
Lutte habits bade him begone.
He also did another thing that made
me turn against him.
We have hot and cold water all over
the house-when the pipes burst-and
the land has such a rapid decline that
it falls over 100 feet between the porte
cochere and the buttery. Therefore the
bathtub at the back of the villa is 1876
feet above the bay window on the off
side Of the house and has stopcock on
the outside of the villa, with hose at
tached.
Well, this mans name was Flowtow.
I rose with the lark, and so did Flow
tow, and entered the bath like naiad
queen, as it were, singing ballad that
one could hear all over the place. One
could hear me also spatter the water
and sing like a wren. I had just got
entirely soaped. My undated forehead
was soft lather, and my eyes held over
dimes worth apiece.
I grasped blindly for my sponge. It
was as dry as an essay on duty. I wiped
out one eye with corner of my bath
gown and looked.
Flowtow had attached his hose outside
and watered the pansies and left me
high and dry while was taking me tub
Well, he is the man who suggested
sheep to beautify my blue grass heath.
These sheep were turned loose and babe
to run away and scamper over the grass
and bring me the next spring each
nice little, timber tail lamb with a vox
popui bleat
Solar none Of them has. Some neigh
bor told us that each grown sheep would
have two nice lambs per annum, but
they have never done &C. They even ate
all the green peas that were to have
been cooked with their lambs and then
scaupered away.
Oh, how hate such an animal as thati
A Vasdar girl who had been brought
up ON farm and who got left here at
Arden Station while sketching colored
child, which was born at Arden this
String and is regarded as great curl
oGity there, staid at our chateau sew
eral. days till her trunk came back, and
! spoke to- her about this matter, for she
has . college education, while have not
She would not discuss the question,