Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-09

dcu't suppose that a really lazy person could be made otAer than lazy. even If ne were preached at till the preachers voice cracked and the rafters in the roof of his mouth fell in My wife was born tired" remarked one neighhor. once. about a heipneet who was just a help me-eat" and little more.
 My husbands tongue is the only muscle he has that works all the time sad another neighbor. on ano- ther occasion.
 Travellers in Mexico report that the word most used in that queer coun =, try is ''psanana." meaning tomorrow. Ask man to do a job for you and his answer is manana" Ask help on some sudden need and it will be f1uently promised "manana-" Ask for something beside the eternal frijoles to eat. and you'll be promised roast chicken 'manana-T
 Mexico isn't the only country which ras that sort of critter in it, There are several in Connecticut. I know of one or two within rife shot Of my shanty. And even one or two is just about two too many.
 
 kind of a spring and early summer Eereabouts. It was a case Of catch ss-catch- can" with me. l remembeT, ] might be said to have hovered over my gardens. sometimes with an um- trella and sometimes without, peering for a chance to get in one or two licks of useful work in an interval between the sprinkles.
 Sometimes a half days sunshine would dry off q small. gravcliy area sufficiently 10 make working it pos Sible. Then it was hey for the tools and such tillsge as was feasible. n<' matter how limited the area workable. Once in awhile We would have @ full day without a drizzle and such prec- ious hours were utilized from early morning tf1l the last rays of daylight. How many times we changed work 10 meet the changing weather con ditions l cant tell or even guess. l simply remember that we kept hopping about, dcing what we could. whatever 1t might be. and whether it was what we wanted to do or not.
 r. the corn ground was too heavy to plant or work we put in some more beans or a gravel bank, or sUwed a few more rows of mangels. or set cabhag ge- plants. or tried anything else which offered the chance of keeping busy at something with possibility of results. That phrase possibility of resul+s7 is used deliberately. for l can't truth fully say that we saw much that coult he recko1ed a promise of results" for several weary weeks. There was a time when it seemed as if all we could do Nas to mark time and practice getting used to the starvation which loomed la f1r,v Nf he iy,u tor
 But we're both fairly experienced gamblers my helper and land we've lived through anywhere from forty seven to sixty five New England seasons, That IS 10 say, through any where from forty seven to sixty-fve different seasOns.-FoT whoever say TWO New England seasons that were alike? Or like any other within the memory of the oldest innabitant?
 And so we kept at it-keDt ever lastinglv at it.-whenever the clouds gave us a chance and We could use a hoe without it's clogging into a chunk of mud the first stroke.
 We'll, in spite of all this we had the finest early onions and beets and car rots that we ever had The seed was s3wn when even We felt grave doubts lest il might rot in the sodden soi without examination. In the case of -he onion bed. recall that we had tc .save it two hours. after raking for the top dirt to dry off enough to make the use of the drill practicable. Luck fly, we had two hours of sunshine. and the top inch dried out q little so that the drill could be run through it. care fully. and with constant watching II was much the same with the beets and Carrots.
 One of the results of this carefu conserving of the chance quarter hours of working weather has beer that I've been selling beets and car rots and bunch onions for severa weeks to neighbors who had just ex- actly the same chances to raise theii rwn that we had. but who were toe lazy to take advantage of them.
 Another result showed itself las week. Tomatoes ripenin' any vet 9 1ueried one neighbor, as he walked uI to the roadside fence and stopped fol 2 chat while I was pinching and tyine some vines. For answer l stepped tC