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WHAT TO DO, AND HOW TO BE HAPPY WHiLE DOING IT. 



Continued from Oct. /.<. 



CHAPTER XLII. 



Give, aud it shall be g-iven unto you.— Luke 0:3k. 



In Chapter XXXIX. I told you something 

 about God's gifts— the gifts he was sending 

 me day by day. Well, since giving me that 

 spring, that still holds out during all these 

 dry spells, of more than 100 barrels of water 

 per day (when we have use for it), he has 

 given me many other valuable gifts. One 

 of them is a gi-eat lot of muck, leaves, sand, 

 and rotten wood that I found in the bottom 

 of our carp-pond. This accumulation of 

 ages was one of the obstacles toward getting 

 our pond so that it would hold water ; and 

 at first I felt almost disappointed when I 

 saw the expense it was going to require to 

 scoop it out and get clear down to hardpan. 

 When I found, however, that this accumu- 

 lation was a very valuable compost, I could 

 not think of it except in the line of a gift. 

 We have hauled out considerably over a^ 

 hundred loads and put it arovuid our rasp- 

 berries, and there is a good deal to come out 

 yet. The leaves and vegetable matter liave 

 doubtless been accumulating in this cavity 

 for years ; and the eccentricities of Cham- 

 pion Brook had, at some remote time, bur- 

 ied them up. Well. I can not very well 

 share these gifts with you, my readeis. It 

 is true, we have been furnishing the spring 

 water to the friends arounti town during the 

 drought ; but this great bed of muck I can 

 not very well share with anybody, even if 1 

 were so disposed. But God has given me 

 some other gifts that I can share with you, 

 and I greatly enjoy the pleasure of doing it. 

 These gifts are some inventions I have re- 

 cently made. Our text says, "Give, and it 

 shall be given unto you ;" and it has always 

 seemed to me that these great gifts come all 

 the faster when we are busily engaged in 

 giving them to our fellow-men. This veri- 

 ties the promise in our text, you see : "' Give, 

 and it shall be given unto you.'" 



My first invention is a little implement 

 wherewith we can transplant any sort of a 

 plant tree, herb, or flower, at any season of 

 the year, without any possibility of injury. 

 Of course, such arrangements have been 

 used heretofore, but I think none so simple 

 and easy as this one. 



money, if money were the object ; but 1 

 think I shall enjoy ever so much more see- 

 ing you assisted by it, than I should be by 

 making money out of it. In the first place, 

 you are to go to a tin-dhop and ask them for 

 the very heaviest sheets of 14 x 20 tin they 

 have. In our tin-shop, every little while 

 they come across a sheet of IX tin, too 

 heavy to work, and it is pitched to one side. 

 When I made my invention I found that 

 they had quite a lot of such sheets they had 

 no particular use for. I directed one of the 

 boys to set the squaring-shears so as to cut 

 a sheet of tin into six equal pieces. The 

 dotted lines in the diagram show where he 

 made these cuts. 



A KEW ERA IX TRANSPLANTING. 



May be this invention of mine might be 

 tlie means of bringing me a good deal of \ pick the tube up and sot it back in your tray. 



now TO CUT THE SHEET OF TIN. 



Now, these pieces will be 10 inches long 

 by a inches wide, or perhaps a fraction 

 more. Make a bend on each end of each 

 piece, the same as for locking together a 

 cup or pail ; then roll the piece up and lock 

 the ends together (no soldering is necessary , 

 so as to make the tin tube here shown. 



This completes our ma- 

 chinery. Before we go to 

 work, however, we M'ant a 

 hundred or more of these lit- 

 tle tubes, depending upon the 

 amount of transplanting we 

 liave to do. Stand your tubes 

 in wooden trays, or trans- 

 planting-boxes, such as are 

 shown in Chapter XI.— trans- 

 planting-boxes for seedlings. 

 Set these boxes of tubes on a wheelbarrow, 

 and go where your plants are. We will 

 suppose that it is strawberries you want to 

 take up. Gather up the leaves of your 

 young plants and slip the tube over them, 

 adjusting it so the crown is as near as possi- 

 ble in the center of the tube. Xow set your 

 foot squarely on the tube, and force the 

 tube into the soil, say half its depth; then 



TIN TUBE FOR 

 TRANSPLANT- 

 ING. 



