The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-02-09
CHAPTER xxx.
farm ENPEIIENCES.

wagon and was holding the lines hitched
10 a horse about 40 years old that leaned
agaiEs, the hitching post to rest only
a shilling apiece"
'Oh. 80 way" said the grocery man.
u only pay cents apiece" And then
he looked IL the boy and said: Hello.
Hennery, Is that you: ! have missed
you all this week. and now yoD come on
to me sudden. disguised as granger
What does this al mean:
1t means that have been the victim
Of IS vile q conspiracy as ever was known
since Cesar was stabbed and Marc An
tony grated over his PROSTATE CORPSE II
The Roman forum 10 IN audience Of
syues and scene shutters" and the boy
dropped the lines on the sidewalk, sid.
whoa. col darn YOU" 10 the horse that
was asleep, wiped his boots on the grass
in front Of the store and came II and
seated himself on the ola halt bushel.
There. TINS seems Ike home again.
What's the row-who has been play
ing II OIL you.' And the grocery man
sinelled sharp trade il cabbagcs q
well as other smells peculiar 10 the farm
We'll, I'll tell you. Lately our folks
have been constantly talking OF the II
. dependent life Of the farmer and how
. easy il is, and how they would like il il
/ would learn 70 BE- a farmer. They said
there was nothing like it, and several o.
the neiahbors loinel IN and said had
the natural ability 70 be one Of the most
successful farmers II the state. They
all drew pictures Of tbs fun Il was e
work on a farm. where you could got
vcur work done and take your tishpols
and 60 of and catch fish, or gun ant
goout and kill game. and how YOU coull
ride horses and pitch hay and smell th'
sweet perfume and goto husEing bees anl
dances ana everything. and they got IL
al worked up SO WANTED to 80 to woFl
OF farm.
Then an old deacon that belongs Z
oar church, who runs farm about eigh
miles cut Of town, he came on the seem
and said he wanted boy and # woul'
90 out and work for him he would b
easv on me because lie knew my folk
and we belonged to the same church
can see it new. 1t was al put up io
OF me, Just ike they I.ay three car
monte on fresh stranger. 4 was tool
IL. by gosh, / have been ont there !
week, and here's what there is leit o
me. The only way got chance 4
come TO town was 70 tell the farmer
could sell cabbages to YOU for shillifi'
apiece. ! knew yQu sold them fo- Z
cents. and thought that You would .v
shilling. So the farmer said he wcni
, pay me my wages in cabbages at sssl
, Ing apiece and only charge me 81 7.
, the horse and wagon 10 bring them
, SO you only pay cents. her
-ahbages, which will come 10 2 --si'
, pay 81 for the horse. and wAel !
. hack to the farm owe the farmer
/ cents, besides working week for nctl
: ing. Oh. it Is all right. i don't latl
. but this ends farming for Hennery.
/. know when have got enough Of an cls
/ LIE On a farm. prefer q hari life
. breaking stones on the strecss-to q
Easy. dreamy life on farm"
; They did play it on you. didn't they:
!. said the grocery man But wasn't tn
old deacon 2 good man TO work fors'
J Good nan nothing said tho boy q
be took UP rieceof horseradish ami b
gan to crate il On the inside IF his roug
: hand Il tell you there's heap {
difference in deacon in Sunday schos
z telling about sowing wheat and tar
and a deacon out on farm III hurr
: season, where there is hay to get III an
: wheat TO harvest all at the same time.
: went out 10 the farm sunday evenin
: with the deacon and his wife. and The
couldn't talk too much about the nis
time we would have and the fun, b.
the deacon changed more than 40 degree
In five minutes after we got to the farm
He jumped out Of the wagon and puilS
: of his coat and let his wife climb OF
over the wheel and yelled 10 the hir'
girl to bring out the milk pail and tcl
me to fiy around and unharness Il
J horse and throw down lot Of hay +
y the work animals, and then told me
run down to the pasture and drive up
lot Of cows.
MI THE PASTURE was half n mile ava
and the cows We're scattered around
J the woods, and the mosquitoes we
thick, and got all covered with in'
: and burrs and stung with thisiles, al
when / 70. the cattle near TO tine hou
the old deacon yelled to me that l W
slower than molasses in the winter, a
then took club and tried TO hurry I
. cows. and he yelled at me to stop hurl
81 ing cause l would rctard the flow
. milk. BY gosh, ! was mad. asked
a mesquite bar to put over me next III
went after the cows, and the people
I laughed at me. and when sat down
lp the fence to scrapc the mud off my y
=" day pants the deacon yelled like he u
in the revival, only h. said: Come, con
Il Procrastination il the thief of time. \
y. get up and hump yourself and 20 q
nd feed the pigs lie was SO darn lne
a. that could not help throwing a b
III dock burr against the side " The cow
oss was milking. and il struck h,r right