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Yet it was a joy not untinged with black; for in the church across from our house, funerals had been held for farmer boys who had died in prison-pens and been buried in Georgia trenches. One youth there was, I remember, who had stopped to get a drink at our pump, and squirted a mouthful of water over me because I was handy.
He threw the sixpence tragically on the table. "Ah!" said his aunt, suspending her breath. And she opened upon him a lecture on how she would now have him all the spring upon her hands doing nothing. "If you can't skeer birds, what can ye do? There! don't ye look so deedy! Farmer Troutham is not so much better than myself, come to that.
How different from the books of one hundred years ago, with their black covers and queer pictures! This story read by the little New York boy last week has been read by many little boys in Iowa, and by many little girls in Georgia. It tells about an orphan boy who was "bound out" to a farmer who treated him cruelly.
The farmer surveyed approvingly the sturdy frame, broad shoulders, and muscular arms of the boy, and said, after a pause, "You look pretty strong of your age." "Oh, yes, sir," answered Thomas, complacently "I am strong." "And you are used to farm work?" "Yes, sir. I do about all the outdoor work at home, being the only boy.
This is especially true of the farmer, as has been pointed out again and again by all observers most competent to pass practical judgment on the problems of our country life.
The artificial propagation of fish has attracted much attention of late years, and the success of experiments has shown that every farmer that has a stream of water on his land can raise fish enough to get rich in five years, four months and twenty-one days. About as mean a trick as we ever heard of was perpetrated by a doctor at Hudson last Sunday.
Webb and Len can take care of all the land, and I don't believe I was cut out for a farmer." He not only troubled Amy exceedingly, but he perplexed all the family, for it seemed that he was decidedly taking a new departure.
Is it going to rain or snow, be hot or cold, wet or dry? are inquiries upon which I would fain get the views of every man I meet, and I find that most men are fired with the same desire to get my views upon the same set of subjects. To a countryman the weather means something, to a farmer especially. The farmer has sowed and planted and reaped and vended nothing but weather all his life.
I took a chair and sat in a corner until the storm passed. While I sat there I saw her rise from time to time and whisper something to the farmer. One of the children, whom I took upon my knee, said that she had been coming every night since the mother's illness.
People who had no other books would buy and read Poor Richard's Almanac. The library of many a farmer consisted of only the family Bible with one or more numbers of this famous almanac. Here are a few of Poor Richard's sayings: "A word to the wise is enough." "God helps them that help themselves." "Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
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