Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-06-24

destitute Of soil. A farm may thus be-
come too neat for things to grow upon:
Ihaye a neighbor who has beautiful
browustone front farm, without base
ment. near Postum Trot, this state, and
you could walk all over 1t In white SILK
socks without Soiling the soles OF your
feet.
! bought three farms, however, and
putting one right on top OF the other
I've got what l call solid farm. By
buying three farms one above the other
aud watch a wet season, when small
farms may be easily shuffled, slid one
over the other until now I'll not have
to get q 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 a gentle shepherd boy on and after
this date.
Last year I bought nine sheep that
thought would look we'll dotting the
landscape. If l had not been an author
of renown, doubtless should have been
q painter When I had bought Buck
Shoalo, l turned to nay vile 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 q large blue girl tattooed on his
arm. He had q husky voice and used
to sing, "The corn IS woVIn, 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 dlsso-
lutte habits | babe 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
IL falls over $50 feet between the porte
cocbere and the buttery. Therefore the
bathtub at the back of the villa is lS5
feet above the bay window on the off
side OF the house and has q stopcock OF
the outside of the villa, with hose at
tached.
Well, this mans name was Flewtow.
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 wren. had just got
entirely soaped. Ny undated fore
head was a soft Iather, and my eyes held
over dimes worth apiece.
IErasped blindly for my sponge. II
was as dry as an essay on duty. l wiped
out one eye with corner OF my bath
gown and looked.
Flowtow had attached his hose out
side and watered the pansies and left
me high and dry while l was taking my
| tub.
Well, he IS the uan who suggested
sheen TO beautify my blue grass heath.
| These sheep were turned loose and babe
10 run away and scauper over the grass
and bring me the next spring each q
nice little, timber tail lamb with VoI
! populi bleat.
So far none OF them has. Some neigh
Dor told US that each grown sheep would
have two nice lambs per annum, bot
they have never done so, They even ate
all the green peas that were 70 have
| been cooked with their lambs and then
scampered away.
Oh, now hate such an animal as
that
| A Vassar girl who had been brought
up on farm and who got left here al
| Arden Station while sketching q color
I'D child. which was born al Arden this
spring and is regarded as great curl
osity there, staid At our chateau seVeral
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,
however, but turned the conversation
TO the subject of something else after
copplineaping ne on ne sheep AnO