The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-15

He telleth joyous stories of how he
spaded up an acre lot in the after
noon and planted therein Early Rose
potatoes.
And likewise turnips and lettuce and
corn and strawberries and pineapples
and string beans and tomatoes.
And got through in time to go swim
ming before it was dark.
Perchance he tarrieth at the grocer s
and cometh home on an evening with
two packages of rutabaga seed and a
sack of sprouted potatoes.
Telling his wife that he will show
her how he used to make nature bios
som when he was back on the good
old farm.
He is like unto man that was
named Binna Nuther, who was a son
of Havva Nuther and a brother of lima
Nuther.
Now, Binna Nuther was wont to
complain with a loud voice when the
market man charged him cents for
three leaves Of lettuce and so cents
box for strawberries.
So upon time he said: go to.
Shall 1 not have a garden of mine
own?"
And it was so.
Hearken now unto the story of Binna
Nuther and the garden that he. made,
anu olAlO bAAC pans anu
thereof.
And observe, my son, how his gar
den came not up to the blue prints
which were pinned unto his prospec-
tus.
Now, Binna Nuther lived in a house
which was in front of a large back
yard.
over against the fence will plant
tomatoes, and in front of them will l
a hnA xxrhn ~lz
in the sunshine and the string bean
may ramble in freedom.
Also shall l have a place wherein
the dwarf pea and the pumpkin vine
may Chamber sportively one about the
other and where the cucumber vine
may roam its jocund way unsecured.
There shall also be places for let
tuce and for parsley, and in one cor
ner shall the merry, merry onion flavor
the zephyrs."
So he went unto the place where
seeds are kept for barter and sale and
he got there a large, fat catalogue.
Which contained pictures of all man
ner of fruits and vegetables and the
price of the seeds thereof.
Then did Binna Nuther study the
catalogue many evenings.
He would sit within the library with
his wife and children about his knee
And turn the leaves from the cover
chrome which showed the Nine. Cazoz-
zus climbing rose flourishing against
a green sky.
To the concluding picture of the
Scootalong wheat drill meandering over
the fowery meads with a comic opera
farmer lassie sitting upon the top
thereof and waving her hly-white
hand at the horizon.
But the picture Of the Giant Spas
modic early rising potato pleased him
greatly, as did also the illustration of
the Mammoth Saccharine corn.
And the Cannonball pea and the Bal
loon tomato.
"All of these for me-" said Binna
Nuther.
ut is WELL" answered Notta Nuther.
who was his wife and the helpmeet Of
his existence. Then thou wilt hire a
man to spade up the ground?"
MOT any," answered Binna Nuther.
Whenever the old car horse gets too
stiff to spade up his own garden then
he will retire from active life. 1t is
me for the husky spade and the ram
pant rake and hoe"
Then did Binna Nuther HE him I'M
to a hardware store and lay down
much good money, for which he OBJ
tanned a spade and a hoe and rake.
Also he bought a Farmers Friend
pitchfork and an Agriculturists' Joy
corn planter.
Likewise the clerk told him that he
would have need of a Whifligig spray
er TO put paris green in the potato
plants. and he bought It.
Furthermore the clerk assured him