Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-31

| he wants you to have it mended, so's
 he can borrow it again"
 There are too many of that sore. In 1 fact, just one of that sort in any neighborhood is too many.
 Neighbor Waterhouse has a six scatter carriage which he is rather proud of. He sees that it is washed or wiped off every time it is used and then covered with a big sheet to pro- tect the upholstering from dust. It l stands in a. roof-tight carriage house. too. Not long ago it was borrowed for some emergency. Instead of promptly returning it, the borrower left 1t till the next day, standing unprotected over night in the ditch of the public road.
 Some years ago I lent my flaming mill to help out in another emergency. | It came back with one sieve battered l out of use, the draw board split so | that it can no longer be held in place, | and something wrong with the throat. I can't seem to find out what has hap | pened there, but it clogs. now, no | matter what grain is being winnowed, which it never before did under any circumstances.
 | The other day I happened to be
 talkin~ with neighbours wife when | a peddler chanced along with some
 tomatoes. A passer. seeing them, re-
 membered that some were wanted at | his place for making Chilli sauce and bought a peck. Turning to the lady | he asked politely if she would lend 1 him 8 basket till afternoon to car " them in. She went back to the house.
 After five minutes absence she came l out again with a queer smile on her | pleasant face. Sorry" she sa: l, l but every basket we own is at the
 neighbors'. Perhaps they'll go in this i old flour bag. And then you won't | have t0 TPfI1TT1
 1 Now, when a fellow goes without | the new run or the fancy fishing rol 1 he'd like in order to save the money 1 for new farm tool, he is apt to have
 certain real interest in the welfare
 of that tool which has cost him some | self-denial. It doesn't seem quite 1 right for some othe~ fellow, who f~s 1 chosen to blow in lis money Gn bil- l llardS and beer or ice cream slnd gaSo- 1 line to be borrowing ard misusing that tool. Nor is it any sort of good Judgment for the owner to let it rust out and rot out through needless eA- l posture.
 It's now more than forty years since l l began to buy tools. Even then 1 l had a fondnesS fol them and a horror | of borrowing. I started out with the 1 fixed determination that I would never 1 borrow a tool. if I could possibly l scrape up money enough to buy ii. The ! fact that I needed any particular tool
 at any time was evidence that I should
 probably need it again some other
 time. So if I got it that first time I'd have it when the second need e.rose I | never bought any tool till I had UT
 foresaw immediate use for it. Then I l got it, used it, cleaned it up and put | 1t away in proper rack or chest It 1 really wasn't much to buy a chisel or 1 a r1p-saw or drill. one at a time, as l needed. Yet that practice, . cid to for 40 years. has now stored my little | shop with almost everything n the | way of tools which a farmer can want
 TOT light emergency repairs bout the | place.
 Really the only expense Eve felt was when the growing number of them fairly compelled me to build the shop
 to keep and house them in. That took quite a little wad, and at first
 I had doubts whether it would pay. But l needn't have had any. It has ! paid; paid for itself time and time
 again; paid for all it cost and big in- l terest on the investment.
 Besides paying for itself, it has en-
 abled me to keep my growing stock of l tools in good shape and in order, sc that I know just where each one is l when I want it. Of course, these are | small tools of which am talking, now l carpenters and blacksmith's tools The | ideal for farm would be a combina-
 tion tool and machinery shop: one big l enough to store handily the horse ma l chinery and whatever other large things one has, with a shop built in
 as part of 1t, with bench, forge, an- vil wise, tool racks, etc. But we cant all afford so much, all at once. ] couldn't, when I built my little shop ] My larger tools, moving machine