Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-06-27

10 build farms. but we begin to plant
and SOW without having first put i'll our
wires and SubwayS. Then the showers
below. leaving the farm itself perfectly
destitute of.soil. y farm may thus be-
come too neat for things To grow upon.
have a neighbor who has n beautiful
brownstone front farm, with basement,
near PoSsum Trot, this state, and you
could walk all over it i'll white silk
socks without soiling the solcs of your
feet.
| bought three farms, however, and
putting one right on top of the other
I've got what l call n soiled farm. By
buying thrcc farms one above the other
and watching n wet season, when small
farms may be easily shuffled, 1 slid one
over the other until now I'll not have
10 get stoncmaSon 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 l shall not
b. a gentle shepherd boy ON and after
this date.
Last year bought nine sheep that l
Thought would look well dotting the
landscape If l had not been an author
VI renown, doubtless 1 should have been
a painter When had bought Buck
Shoals, turned to my wife and said:
This is splendid. Now what shall we
c,t 10 dot the landscape with"
\ landscape gardener told me that
sheep were used good deal in tho old
country He was an imported gardener,
with a large blue girl tattoccd on his
arm. He had a 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 mp the whole bottle.
WAS going to hire him for a year,
hut when found that he was of diSSo-
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 husband
the land has such rapid decline that
il falls over 100 feet between the porte
COcherc and the buttcry. Therefore the
hathtub ut the back of the villa is 1856
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 man name was Flowtow.
rose with the lark. and so did Flow
tow, and | entered the bath like n naiad
queen, rs it We're. singing ballad that
one could hear all over the place. One
could hear me also spattef the water
H.
entirely soapcd. My undated forehead
was soft lathcr. and my eyes held over
dimes worth apiece.
graspcd blinlly for my sponge. 1t
was rs dry rs an essay on duty. l wiped
out one eye with n corner of my bath
gown and looked.
Fl0wtow had attached his hose outside
and watered the pnnsieS 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 a
nice little, Timber tail lamb with n vox
populi bleat
So far mono Of them has. Some neigh
Dor told Us that each grown sheep would
have two nice lambs per annum. but
they have never done So They even ate
all the green peas that were to have
been cooked with their lambs and then
scampered away.
Oh, how 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 n colored
child, which was born ut Arden this
spring and is regarded as great Curl
osity there, staid at our chateau sew
eral days till her trunk came hack, and
/ spoke 10 her about this matter, for she
has a college education, while have not.
She would not discuss the question.
however, but turned the conversation to
the subject of something else after COM
plimenting me ON the sheep and saying,
with a sunny smile. that they We're the
most bucksome sheep she had ever seen
altogether.
Was she guying or chatting me in my
old age? Great Hickory Ellum, If had
thought she spoke lightly / would cheer
fully have charged her transient rates
while she was herel
These sheep have a presence" about
them which has driven away a new sad
die horse of mine, and we have to tie
the horse radish also They eat the grass
and then go partially up the trees and
eat the foliage off.
A sheep cannot even succeed itself in
the same room Mr.. Morris lost 90 by
dogs at one time. That shows that oven
the most vile and worthless dog may be
of use If he win get mp and stir himself.
sold my sheep yesterday TO Bill
Baldwin. the butcher. got $40. 90 out
of them. and he had TO drive them
away.
thought when got them that they
would come up 10 the library door
standing knee deep In the blue grass
and show on to those who came to the
villa to see rs, but they only came mp
TO the house ON cold days when they
were melting, and they would shiyer
and look cold. aud their little chs~@