The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-07-12
AN ABLE ASSISTANT.
Ru AL AlnE RurH III.

twenty stood In the grounds OF a coun.
try place, a diagram In one hand. a
pencil IN the other. A man carrying
artists sketching materials was com.
ing down the road. He stopped and
leaned against the stone wall.
"Is this the Harrington placer be
asked the girl.
1T u.s.
'The old maids who owned 1t, !
hear, are dead, and X has passed into
the hands Of new owner. They say
he's a globe trotter and there's no more
chance Of the place being kept up than
before"
"on the contrary, ] am employed to
lay out the grounds in an entirely new
scheme"
Your
"You seem surprised 10 see a girl do
ing such work ! have just been grad
uated IN the department Of gardening
at 49, college,"
"H'mI Where are your assistantsi
You can't do the Job alone"
Cant get any"
How would ! do7" be asked after
a pause
"You seem 70 be an artist, not a tiller
OF the soil"
ARTISTS can't live on their artistic
productions; they must stop once IN
awhile to earn some money by work"
you couldn't earn much here-only
50 day and found"
Il could ran ahead s12 a week. III
40 70 work right or II you like"
The man was engaged, the head
gardener warning him that II she
caught him dreaming over the sur
rounding scenery, which was very fine,
she would dock" bis wages. He must
also agree to give her a weeks notice
before quitting. All this being ar
ranged. she set him 10 work digging
up the sod for a new arrangement Of
the walks. It was hard work, and be
didn't get on very well. At evening
she told him he'd better give Il up.
Il tell you what ia do" be said.
"You pay me what you are allowed
for assistants with that I'll agree to
employ two assistants and boss them.
That'n give you AL your time for plan
ming
He succeeded In talking her into the
scheme, thongh she couldn't zee where
he would get help or make anything
for himself. He went 10 the village
that evening and the next morning
had two lusty fellows at work. He sat
in the grounds sketchlng. giving his
men occasional Instructions
II declare said the bead gardener,
N that isn't just like an artist No
body can ever tell how they live
Wen, II be doesn't make any money
it's no concern Of mine. Hes getting
the work done
Finding TOO much tune fore her plan
ming, she strolled ont and took look
AZ the picture be was making The
outline OF landscape was skebched
on the canvas.
Il would ike to know" she said,
''how you expect to gain any money
BY paying your wages 70 others"
Il thought that was the only way
to make money getting other people
to 40 the hard work and doing the
skilled part yourself
"But you're net even doing the skill.
ed part"
you're doing that.s
sffVhiie v0n are
Wasting my time. Iadmit It. This
picture viii never be good for any
thing. Let's 50 IN and try the piano.
He seemed TO have his own way
with her She followed him into the
house. and. sitting before the piano.
he STRUCK several chords.
"This won't do" he said snappishly.
"The thing cant have been tuned in
years. These people can't expect you
to get on with a tin pan. What's the
agents nameg
Before she could stop him he had
rung up the agent on the telephone, |
and she was hoITified to hear him say: |
"Miss KLssock, the head gardener,
wants 10 know what you mean by
leaving the piano in such condition.
She says If you don't have a man here
to tune it right or she'll throw up her
JOB"
EIe dung down the receiver and re
Joined her
Upon my wordF she exclaimed
''Who authorized you to say that7.
III be doesn't have timer here by
tomorrow morning you needn't pay me
any wages for myself or the two as
You women are not cited /
to get on as men are. You haven't (
got any sand
Where men have as much Of 1t rs
you have there's none left for us
women
She consented to let the matter rest,
and sure enough the next morning the
plano was tuned Then the first assist.
ant gardener insisted on the head gar
dener spending the morning with him
n the music room
Finally the grounds were laid out
on the new plan. The men the assist
ant had hired kept at work and seemed