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'Twas in time of a summer vacation; 



When we hunt up our county relation, 

 I'm no exception, ah no, not I, 

 So to the city, I bade good bye, 



And was off to the farm for recreation. 



I found it a most delightful change; 



From the noise and din, 



And those youngsters of sin, 

 Who seem like perpetual motion; 



So I turned to green fields and flowers and trees, 

 With a feeling akin to devotion. 



What a change in the diet, from the boarding house table; 



Pure milk, undisputed. 



This was not diluted, 

 And had what I called butter, there; 



Cottage cheese, who could beat it, 



In town I could'nt eat it. 

 To change its name would be fair. 



Butter milk, eggs, fruit and watermelons huge; 



I enjoyed all this, 



In this season of bliss; 

 Early rising without any harming, 



I gained twenty pound, 



And my sleep it was sound. 

 And that's "what I know about farming." 



AUGUST MEETING. 



The August meeting of the Society was held at the residence of 

 T. F. Leeper, Lima, Adams county, on the 9th. 



ORCHARD REPORT. 



BY T. F. LEEPER, LIMA. 



John Bunyan was the opposite of a m3^stie, his sermons were 

 common sense, closely packed. They exhibit the closest observation 

 of the ways of human nature in practical life. His history of "Mr. 

 Badman " is more true to contemporary life than even the adven- 

 tures of " Jonathan Wild," though written a century later. It has 

 been said that Bunyan never weakened his eyesight over books, yet 

 he sharpened his sense of observation of the human family. All of 

 his volumes abound with incidents evidently observed upoil the 

 streets of his native town, or upon the wayside of real life. And 

 not the least agreeable of these things are his terse descriptions of 

 the country, the fields, the flowers and the birds, and the simple 

 cheerfulness with which he imparts the information which adorn 

 the pages of his earlier works. So, in like manner, in his greatest 



