Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-05-31

had to ask him, if she had met him
She wouldn't have been able to get q
word in, edgewise, before he had told
all he knew and all he had heard and
all he had imagined. He would have
taken vastly more interest in it, too,
than he would if some one had inter-
rupted the relation to tell him that his |
cows had got into his own corn and
were eating it up. That would have
been his own business. and not half |
SO important to him as the other fell
lows. or anything like as interesting.
There's q continent-Wide difference |
between neighborliness and inquisi-
tive scandal mongering. If the other |
fellow is in tight spot and wants |
bit of help it's only decent neighbor- |
Iiness to give it. But. ordinarily, it's
vastly better to let him hoe his own
row in his own way. AS things go and
as people are more rows will be like
w to get hoed that way. More, even
than if you Just sit on the fence and
criticize him For your own certainly
won't be hoed while you're occupying
his fence-top.
II is doubtful if there is farm any
where in New England which can't
keen its occupant busy all his avail
able time and keep his mind on the
lump, too, if he will only accept the
stunts it sets him. Especially such
! snring as this, when the inceSSant
rains are such a handicap. One needs
Ito be right on the job every blessed
minute. to take advantake OF every
/ little opportunity to get sonetnlhS
done.
The wife wanted some crackers. so
/ Yesterday on nv route l stopped in at
the store for them. Old Man DllllllS-
ham was sitting in the back room.
Hey" he called out. i hear you've
got your corn planted. =.
yep" I responded, all but one ut
tie patch
Gosh" said he, 81 ha'n't even got
my oats all in yet. Ant no use elther;
| the seed Id rot in the ground ltS SO
wet nd cold"
| Well, it's been just as cold and wet
| and, nasty on my ranch as on DllilhS
hams, this season Nor is my land
naturally any drier than his. Inc
! ONLY difference | can see is that Hank
and | have just lowered over the lallil'
watching every slant OF the Wlnu OF
chance showing of the sun, ana nave
crashed instantly every remo3est
! chance to start something. Our oatA
are not only in, but up. so are potd-
| toes. So are three patches oil sweet
corn. So are various garden seeds.
match was fitted three times and unht-
fed nv the rains twice before we
| could oct the tuberS in. But we dou6-
ed showers when we could; kept deg
gedlv at it and at last stole mafch
on old Jupiter PluviuS. Dillingham;
might have been Just as far ahead II
he hadn't spent too many chances IN
j that hack-roon complaining about the
| weather. He hasn't hesitated to tell
his cronies that | am dunn 1901 10
| be wasting work and seed, which Iat-
fer i: sure. he AYERS. to rot in the
ground. But that can't have happen
ed. for all which has been planted long
enough has come up, and investigator
shows that which hasn't had time 10
show above ground is nevertheless
sprouting. My point is that MS farm
would have taken all his time pront-
ably. if he had chosen TO give 1t there
rather than spend it in the store
Darkroom swapping horse stories and
criticizing his absent nelshoors.
In fact, can't for the life of me see
where a real farmer can get the time
to mix up in other peoples affairs. Ii
he will attend to his own as they
should be attended to. they'll call for
all the time and all the strength and
, all the energy he can buy, beg. Dor
row or steal. There won't be any left
l to slop over on 10 the next fellow
farm with
So long as every wheel in the watch
keeps its appointed place and turns
: in its own orbit so long the watch
3 does business But when one whee
l jumps it's bearings and rattles round
? loose among the others, the time