The Pulaskian., 1921-06-16
The Fountain of You'll.
 Monday, June 5, 1921.

AAAb1l LII iee1b AAi tO A4lLAAC AAp1N l was feeling bad and just after din- ner Sunday, May 9, I was sitting at my table and just knowing that the water I had been drinking was mak- ing me sick and I was certain 1t would not be but a day or two until l would be down with the chills and fever. We'll, thinks 1, it is all right
 - came down here because 1 wanted a place of my own to die on, and if l have got to die at once, l will just stay on here and die.
 ''You great big boob, sitting there talking about dying in the Pea Ridge Pinery, when the fountain of youth Is located right at the end of that walk yeu made last February, but you are too lazy to turn the water on. That is all that is the matter with you"
 I looked up to see who would dare lecture me so, and there stood Wan da, the loveliest fairy of them all Then she continued, Go down there and clean out the old spring and there if you will look close you will see a tiny spring, which is the favo- rite spring of the fairies, and the Fountain of Youth, for which Ponce de Leon searched for so long. Dig and sweat and you will be all right and find lots of good water, too. Goodbye, and she was gone.
 We'll, l did as she commanded, and l actually found the Fountain of Youth, and the next morning when Wanda's call boy awoke me 1 was as fresh and we'll and even more youthful than when 1 was a boy of l5. But before l tell you about this spring l must tell you about my other springs and the trouble l have had about water. Excuse me a moment, have got 10 go to the spring for a cool drink of water
 Either one or two days have elapsed since l wrote the above para graph. That's the trouble with us farmers when we get behind with our work. We can never step aside a few feet from where we are at work without finding something which needs doing worse than the job we were on. There is at least dozen jobs which need to be done right now on this place, which would take from week to six months each to do them like they should be done. Maybe that's what's got the matter with me. Just made me sick thinking about them and l just sat down a day or two and did next to nothing. Didn't think enough even to be able to tell whether it has been one or two days. It Is the same way with the pleasures of this place. can't half enjoy them because it would take at least two people to do that. There is always half dozen or more things I want to enjoy at one time. For instance, while l was eating breakfast this morning l heard some dogs chasing something through my homestead, which they had brought over from the Maumelle. l was very anxious to see what 1t was, but at the start had my breakfast on cooking and then l had to eat, and when I got through, the dogs had quit barking. 1t was probably a catamount.
 When l came here the first job 1 did after arranging things in my house was to cut me out a trail or walk through a pine thicket to the old spring. It had rained so much that 1t was nothing but branch water then and 1 soon found out that l had better branch water elsewhere, so quit using it. Upon the hill, while at work in my garden, l noticed a likely looking place for water, so l turned in and dug me spring there. Then there came short dry spell and it went dry I dug three others on the same flat but each soon went dry, but usually after the last one dried up there would come big rain and they would all commence run ming again. Then went over on the other side of the Stowers homestead and looked up a spring that is said never to go dry. At the commence ment of this dry spell went to an- other place at the corner of my home stead and found plenty of water there but though ii looks to be everlasting, 1t Is not healthful water now, though it might be made so. Then the branch at my old spring stopped running and l went down there, as related at the commencement of this article