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Updated: October 27, 2025
Evesham looked up and slightly raised his hat, but his instinct failed him there, it was the window of the boys' room. "Queer kinks them old Friend preachers gits into their heads sometimes," said Farmer Jordan, as they passed the empty mill. "Now what do you s'pose took Uncle Tommy Barton off right on top of plantin', leavin' his wife 'n' critters 'n' child'en to look after themselves?
There was no "blowin time" there, you may depend. We plowed all the fall for dear life; in winter we thrashed, made and mended tools, went to market and mill, and got out our firewood and rails. As soon as frost was gone, came sowin and plantin, weedin and hoein then harvest and spreadin compost then gatherin manure, fencin and ditchin and then turn tu and fall plowin agin.
"Drat them children!" he muttered; but kept on his way, and, drawing near, demanded to know what business brought them so far from home at such an hour. "I might ask you the same question," retorted 'Beida. "Funny time, isn't it? to start diggin' potatoes? An' before now I've always notice you use a visgy for the job. Yet you can't be plantin not at this season "
He told me, that he and the men should be plantin' up to the eight-acre lot, but he'd keep the colt up there to come down on; and so I laid him out a clean shirt, and says, 'Now, Father, you be sure and be there by five, so that Miss Scudder may know when to put her tea a-drawin'. There he is, I believe," she added, as a horse's tramp was heard without, and, after a few moments, the desired Deacon entered.
And Josiah sot there a-fixin' his plantin' bag. He wuz a-goin' out that mornin' to plant over some corn that the crows had pulled up. And she bitterly reproved him. But he sez, "If the world don't come to a end, the corn will be needed." "But it will," she sez in a cold, haughty tone. "Wall," sez he, "if it does, I may as well be a-doin' that as to be settin' round."
"I was plantin' potatoes till my back was near broke and I came in to rest a little and get a drink. She told me it's funny people got to rest so often in these days when they do a little work. She worked in the fields often and she could stand more yet than a lot o' lazy men. I didn't answer her but I came out here and got my rest just the same. She ain't bossin' her brother Amos yet!
One season, between plantin' and harvest, he run short of money for his common daily use, and to pay some little debts he owed, and he was very dull about it.
As for the circumvalley, what between the cuttin', and haulin', and diggin', and settin', that would occupy all hands until after first hoein'. That is, hoein' would come afore the plantin'." "It does not appear to me, Bob, such a heavy job as Joel represents!
"All them things aint goin' to do you no good in New York. People don't keep cows as a reg'lar thing here." "Of course I know that." "And there aint much room for plantin' corn and potatoes. Maybe you could get a job over in Jersey." "I'd rather stay in New York. I can do something here." "Can you black boots, or sell papers?" "I can learn."
You know everywhere in May folks be plantin' corn, the time bein' the sign that frost is over and done with. I nodded assent, and he continued: 'Now naterally there's lots of corn in ear and shelled and ground to meal that isn't planted, and along as when the kernels in the ground begins to swell and sprout, this other corn knows it and begins to heave and sweat, and if it isn't handled careful-like, and taken in the air and cooled, it'll take on all sorts of moulds and musts, and like as not turn useless.
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