Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-03-28
DISPOSING OF THE CROP.
Ry Joan .RUGRY.

came on the door.
Blame that squint-eyed Oriental
What do you want?n he cried.
please, Mr.. T.andreth, the telephone
rings"
Howard jerked open the door. Well
might the little japanese trembIe for
his masters scowl was terrible to be
hold Gone was the elusive idea he
had just managed to grasp after days
of futile effort. His mind was just
beginning to yield to the quiet sooth-
ing peace of the country after days of
irritation and unrest following quar-
rel with Sylvia, and now his chance
of writing for the day was gone.
He strobe to the phone and jerked
down the receiver. ''HelloI" he
snarled.
A feminine voice came over the
wire. Have you any potatoes to
SELF"
INC" roared Howard.
"OhF' came the voice. "WeIl, have
you any corn or onions?'
mol" answered the master Of
Eamasani. IT have no corn or onions -
''Well, have you anything at all to
sell? Tomatoes or cabbage or apples
or eggs or anything?"
Nothing. madam, but ideas, but
lately the crop has been small
He hung up and turned away. what
are you fussing about, Yamasani?
We're not running a market garden
just because we're in the country
"Win master come and see? There
is SO much potatoes! Men dig all day
yesterday. Outside there is ike a
house of potatoes. And the corn
Enough for all America. And cabbage
SOP Spreading his arms high and
wide. "And onions, sol And beets and
turnipsl Everything there is so much
And the eggs! The chickens make
so many i'll the basket every night
One day, two days, week, two weeks
Some baskets / throw over the hill
when they got old. Mister eat only
one. I bake cake. Throw out I
make everything Throw out. Yama-
SAM tell mister many days before and
mister say only, Shut up"
Howard laughed. "AIl right, Yama-
saniI I guess you did say something
about it and I told you not 20 bother
me- Well, If the lady calls up again
or If you can find out who she is, give
her all she wants for nothing
Howard put on his hat and went out.
Tt was a beautiful day in early autumn
and the country was exquisite with
bronzeS and reds. Although he had
taken the same walk many times be
fore he had never been able to see any
thing but Sylvia. After all, perhaps
she was right to go away, if some of
those English chaps in Bermuda don't
carry her off and marry her before she
gets back.
He felt better after his walk in the
cool bracing air and called the Jap.
'sYamasani, have you found out who
the neighbor is who wants the
onions?"
yes, I think, Mr.. Landreth. A man
drive by and stop. He say there is a
big house over there with many chill
dren and they eat, eat, eat everything"
"Oh, I seei An orphan asylum or
children's home. Well, get those men
that were here yesterday and haul
over all the stuff you can find. After
this I'm going to write, and if the tele-
but don't you call me-"
The days sped on and Howard lost
track of them. One afternoon as he
reached for his pipe he found some let
tiers he had forgotten TO open. He
tore them open without interest at
first, but an itemized bill puzzled him,
and he unfolded the inclosed check
with considerable interest 1t was
made out to cash for $45, and it was
signed Sylvia Farnsworth. Sylvia
Farnsworth, his Sylvfa-what could it
mean? It announced that Miss Syl-
via Farnsworth was debtor TO ga kind
neighbor" for the following items:
20 bushels potatoes at 80 cents, 4
bushels tomatoes at 81, and so on.
But what had Sylvia to do with all
this? without waiting TO wonder any
longer he went back to the road that
led TO his neighbours farm As he
came near TO the house he heard the
shouts Of children There were hun
dreds Of them, 1t seemed, all sorts OF
sunDurned, healthy-Iooking little boys
and girls.
is Miss Farnsworth hereT he asked
one OF them
sYes, she's in the house. Just 20 on
up,T advised the sfnan informant
Then Sylvia came in, not the Sylvia
he had known, the languid society girl
he had accused OF being useless in
the heat Of the quarrel This one
was brisk and alert and with an air
of one who enjoys responsibility. $50
Mr. Kind Neighbor has called ar last -
II thought you were in Bermuda :"
'1The others went but-well. I de-
cided that TO bring these kddies away
where epidemics couldn't reach them
would be more useful" She half
closed her eyes and looked ar him. the
color flooding her face
Enrrard Inokad verr crzfItr ssTlear