The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-06-26

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
come too neat for things to grow upon.
/ have a neighbor who. has 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.
1 bought three farms, however, and
putting one right on top of the other
I've got what call a soiled farm. By
buying three farms one above the other
and watching a wet season, when small
farms may be easily shuffled, / slid one
over the other until now I'll not have
to get a 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. ! shall not
be gentle shepherd boy on and after
this date.
Last year bought nine sheep that /
thought would look well dotting the
landscape. If lna-3 not boon an author
of renown, doubtless / should have been
a painter. When. had bought Buck
Shoals, 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 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, ''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.
was going to hire him for year,
but when 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 IS5
feet above the bay window on the off
side of the house and has a stopcock on
the outside of the villa, with hose at
tached.
Well, this mans name was Flowtow.
1 rose with the lark, and so did Flow
tow, and entered the bath like a 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 wren. I had Just got
entirely soaped. My unabated forehead
was a soft lather, and my eyes held over
a dimes worth apiece.
grasped blindly for my sponge. It
was as dry as an essay on duty. I wiped
ont one eye with q 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 bade
10 run away and scamper over the grass
and bring me the next spring each a
nice little, Timber tail lamb with a vox
popuh bleat
So far none of them has Some neigh
Dor told Us that each grown sheep would
have two nice lambs per annum, but
they have never done 50. They even ate
all the green peas that Were 10 have
been cooked with their lambs and then
scampered away.
Oh, how l hate such an animal as that!
4 VasSar girl who had been brought
up on farm and who got left here at
Arden Station while sketching a colored
child, which was born ~ Arden this
spring and is regarded IS q great curl
osity there, staid at cur chateau sew
eral days till her trunk came hack, and
l spoke 20 her about this matter, for she
has a college education. while l have not.
She would not discuss the oueS-ion-
however, but turned the conversation K
the subject Of something else after CON
pliTaenting me on the sheep and saving,
with sunny sEaile, that they We're the
most bGcksoIne sheep she had ever seer
altogether
Was she guyinz or chatting me in II.
old age: Great Hickory Eiium. II hso
thought she spoke lightly would cheer