The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-15

that no home was complete which
lacked a scythe and sickle and
grindstone, and he bought them.
Many more things did the clerk show
unto him, and when he had bought
them all he went to his home with a
light heart.
Where he told his wife many Won
drous stories of blowing and planting
and of the gay and lightsome harvest
home festival
Now his wife, being a woman wise in
her own conceit, said nothing.
So the next day Binna Nuther gat
himself much garden seeds and that
night was the cellar full of packages
and sacks and implements.
Then did Binna Nuther take his hoe
and his spade and his rake and begin
work in the back yard.
And when it was 8 of the clock at
night he came into the house and his
back was sore and his hands blistered,
but he was happy, saying that he
would arise with the lark on the NOR
row and finish the job.
So he and the lark got out early in
the morning, although the ribs and the
spine of Binna Nuther We're exceeding
painful.
And the lark sat on the fence and
watched Binna Nuther heave with the
spade and tug with the hoe and rake
Now, while he was laboring, there
came down the alley man of color
named Julius Brutus Caesar Johnson
Who was whitewashitst and gem
eral chorist, and Binna Nuther called
unto him and hired him for IS to finish
the work.
And julius Brutus Caesar johnson
finished the work while yet Binna
Nuther was amounting himself with
liniment.
When the evening was come Binna
Nuther returned into the garden with
his catalogues and his packages of
seeds and began planting.
And he was planting the grains of
corn when his wife came out and asked
him what he was doing.
Il am sowing the corn" he told her.
But will there be room for the cans
to grow good here?" she asked.
Whereat he laughed with a hilarious
ha ha and told her that he was not
putting in any crops of canned goods.
For the early rain would rust the tin.
And so he worked late that night and
again the next night, until he had
placed all the Giant Spasmodic early
rising potatoes and the Populists' Pride
Pumpkin seed in their little beds.
Also until he had made places where
the corn and the beans and the peas
should rise in their beauty.
And the lettuce and tomato should
enjoy their salad days.
Now, when he had almost finished.
his wife came yet again unto him and
said
THE hardware nan calleth upon the
telephone, saying that he forgot to sell
you wheelbarrow.'
And Binna Nuther sighed and rubbed
his back and said:
Tell him to send it hither and let
a man come with it and wheel me into
the house."
So he left his hoe and his spade and
his rake in the fence corner and went
in and put on the rest of the liniment:
And that night came thieves who
took the hoe and the spade and tbs
rake.
But after the lapse of two or three
weeks Binna Nuther marveled that his
crops did not grow.
And he called unto his neighbor who
raised chickens:
Verify, I believe your hens have
eaten all the seeds that sowed."
Then did the neighbor wink the 9TH
er eye and say:
Il watched you when you were put
ting in that crop, and thought you
were ditching.
If my chickens can dig down as deep
as you planted the seeds then will /
sell them all for tunneling machinery"
In the back yards of Binna Nuther
that summer there was naught save
burdock and jimpson weed and a ham,
mock under the trees.