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Updated: June 24, 2025
The "black knob" was discernible there was no mistake barn doors broken off fences burnt up glass out of windows more white crops than green and both lookin poor and weedy no wood pile, no sarse garden, no compost, no stock moss in the mowin lands, thistles in the ploughed lands, and neglect every where skinnin had commenced takin all out and puttin nothin in gittin ready for a move, SO AS TO HAVE NOTHIN BEHIND. Flittin time had come.
"Say," said Scattergood, changing the subject, "ever try drainin' that marsh in the fork? Looks like it could be done. Might make a good medder." Landers laughed. "If you want to try," he chuckled, "I'll trade it to you for this here mowin' machine." "Hum!..." grunted Scattergood, and higgled and argued, but ended by accepting a deed for the land and turning over the machine to Landers.
"Whenever you come to such a grand place as this, Squire, depend on't the farm is all of a piece great crops of thistles, and an everlastin' yield of weeds, and cattle the best fed of any in the country, for they are always in the grain fields or mowin' lands, and the pigs a-rootin' in the potato patches.
"And what a excitement it would make in Jonesville," sez Josiah, "if I should hitch Ury and Philury onto the mowin' machine. I might," he continered dreamily, "just for a change, drive 'em into Jonesville once on the lumber wagon." But he'll forgit it, I guess, and Japan will forgit it too before long.
Her scoldings, sprinklings with hot and cold water, punching with the carving fork, had all proved ineffectual, and as a last resort, she put the baby on his bed, thinking "that would surely fetch him up standin’, for ’twasn’t in natur to sleep with the baby wollopin’ and mowin’ over him." Her master, too, troubled her. Why he couldn’t get up she couldn’t see.
Atwixt spring and fall work is "BLOWIN TIME." Then Courts come on, and Grand Jury business, and Militia trainin, and Race trainin, and what not; and a fine spell of ridin about and doin nothin, a real "BLOWIN TIME." Then comes harvest, and that is proper hard work, mowin and pitchin hay, and reapin and bindin grain, and potatoe diggin.
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