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January, 1918 



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off the side of the stall for the purpose, when 

 the whole ding-busted lawn-mower, handle 

 and all, hopped out of the old feed- 

 trough, and, after tipping over the basket of 

 potatoes on the floor, rickochetted off on to 

 my right foot. I don 't know why that 

 made me think of my wife — but it did. 

 What it made me think especially of was 

 how all that evening, every time she would 

 hear me emptying another basket of potatoes 

 into the old bin down in that dark old cellar 

 of mine she would strike up singing, ' ' Work 

 while the day grows brighter," etc.; and 

 if I had got away back even to the barn be- 

 fore she had got to the last line about 

 "Work for the night is coming when man's 

 work is done, ' ' she would come to the back 

 door and whoop up that last line till they 

 could hear her over into the next county. It 

 was a perfectly good Sunday-evening pray- 

 er-meeting song, but it just struck me all in 

 a heap right there and then that she hadn 't 

 been singing it that way. I say I thought 

 of this point very strongly just as the ding- 

 binged old lawn-mower knocked over the 

 potatoes and then pounced on my right foot. 

 So I started for the house, with only one foot 

 and only one-half of my face working. But 

 when I got there I was able to begin telling 

 her right away. Most of it was about her 

 singing and her everlasting foolishness about 

 always having to have potatoes for the 

 family. I didn 't let her get in a word 

 edgewise^ — and she was expecting to do most 

 of the talking, too, when we met next. She 

 thought she had all the argument on her side. 

 But a man ain 't the same man toward a 

 wife when a 65-pound lawn-mower has just 

 dropped five feet onto his right foot, and 

 when he has got a lawn-mower handle stuck 

 thru the only right eye he'll ever have, and 

 all this just as a result of harvestin ' potatoes 

 after d.irk for her family. No, he ain't 

 the same. He ain't ever the same for sev- 

 eral hours — and I ain't even now, eighteen 

 hours later. I don 't know when I ever will 

 be again. I ain't cowerin' around home 

 now any more nor making any excuses about 

 all the times I went fishin' last summer or 

 about putting off the potatoes till so late. 

 I told her to her face, square in her eye, that 

 I wished to heckalorum those potatoes 

 weren 't dug yet and that I was glad the 

 ding binged old lawn-mower was busted, and 

 if fihe wanted that last bushel of spilled po- 

 tatoes she could just go and pick 'em up 



