Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-03-09


ed UP at the back Of the stable.
We'll, don't know exactly" said the
man, figuring to drive a bargain. III
you'll do 1t reasonable 1 might make
a deal with you. How much a load
will you haul it for?"
Pm going to school," Sam told
him, land don't have any time except
afternoons after school, but II you'll
let me do the work along as I have
time, I'll haul 1t for rs cents a load"
We'll, I'll Just take you on that,
bud. I've been paying so cents and
it's too much. 1 don't care when you
haul it, just so as you keep most Of II
out of the way"
"All right" said Sam. "Ill be aft
err a load tomorrow afternoon and
another next Monday"
Sam Powell hurried home, delight
ed with his arrangements. He greas-
ed the one horse wagon, mended the
harness and got everything in readi-
ness for work. That night he told
| his mother and sister about his plans.
That land is mighty poor" he
said, but I'm going to make 1t grow
something. I'll get rs cents a load
for hauling from a stable down
town, and I'm going to put every load
| of 1t on our farm. I'll tell you how
| I'm going to manage it. I'll go down
and load up one evening and drive
home with It.; then the next evening
I'll haul it to the farm. That'll be
three loads a week from town, and
on Saturdays I'll haul manure from
Bill Googe's or ashes from the gin"
81 didn't know ashes were good for
land" said Mrs. Powell.
Wood ashes are fine" Sam ex-
| planned. "They burn wood at the gin
| and there's a little mountain Of ashes
| there. Mr.. Burton. the owner, gave
| them to me. Some Of these days 1t
won't be so easy to get fertilizer for
nothing. They don't know what it's
worth now"
"Oh, I'm so anxious to get out to
the old home again!" exclaimed Flor
ence. when do you think we'll move.
SAM"
81 expect 1t will be in March or the
1st Of April" was the reply.
81 do hate for you and Florence to
miss any Of the school," said Mrs.
Powell.
"Id forgotten to tell you, mother"
said her son, that school will be out
in April. Well miss only a week or
two. They have to cut the session short
because they've run out Of money to
pay the teachers"
We'll, that's not so bad" Mrs. Pow
ell reflected. Although you miss
school, just the same, it really can't
be helped"
The next day being Friday, Sam
went down to the stable after school
hours and hauled the first load Of ma
nure home so as to be in readiness to
| drive to the farm next morning with
his companions, who were to be on
hand at the appointed hour.
Early Saturday morning the boys
Fred, Joe and Andrew-were on hand
at the appointed hour. Sam soon had
the horse hitched to the loaded wagon
and the four boys rolled away over
the gravelly road to the farm.
In an hours time they had reached
their destination, and the horse was
embarrassed and turned loose to Craze
in the field. Sam found the farm In a
worse condition than he had expected
and he had expected 1t to be bad. Bri-
ers and bushes and tall grass grew
thick along the rail fence all around
the field. Here and there next to the
ground rails had rotted and allowed
hogs to come in and go out at Will,
The last tenants hadn't taken any
trouble to mend these gaps, and the
hogs that ran outside had destroyed
a part of the crops for W or three
years.
my! There's certainly some work
to do here" remarked Sam.
Whats to do?" Fred Martin asked
For the first thing" Sam replied,
this fence row is to clean out, and
then I'll have to cut some poles to put
in the place of those rotten rails"
Let me and Joe cut the poles" said
Fred, while you and Andrew clean
out the fence row. Where's the ak,
and how long must the poles be-"
go ahead, Fred, you and Joe,'
broke in Andrew, smiling. 1--WE
know you don't like the looks of these
briers and bushes. but We'll not kick
You'll find the a. in the wagon"
said Sam, land you can cut the poles
the same length as the fence rails. ]
think they're about ten feet long"
When Fred and Joe had gone down
in the woods, Sam brought a brier
hook and a sharp grubbing hoe with
which to begin work on the tangled
mass along the fence.
My" he exclaimed, but that's 60
ing to be a woolly job! Those boys
had an eye to business, Andrew, when
they took the chopping. 1t does seem
like there ought to be some easier and
quicker way of doing it than this"
How long do you think it will take
us?" asked Andrew.
We'll, I did think at first" replied
Sam, that it wouldn't take long. But
now, since I've had a second look at
it, l think we won't more than get
started good today"
IF we could burn it out first" sug-
gested Andrew. 1T wouldn't be nearly
so bad"
mo, but we'd burn up the fence"
Couldn't we follow along with wa
ter and put out the rails when they
caught fire."
Good for you, Andrew" Sam ex-
| claimed. That's the very idea. The
fire will burn up nearly all the bushes
and briers and kill all the boil weevils
and other insects that are wintering in
there at the same time. That's why