102 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH. 



duce heads in the course of three years, I was in de 

 spair. Weeville, however, who confirmed these dole 

 ful discoveries, came to my rescue by inquiring in an 

 enthusiastic way whether I had ever eaten a Daniel 

 O Eourke pea. I replied that doubtless I had, as I 

 paid the highest price in market. 



&quot; Oh, pshaw !&quot; he answered, &quot; they are never sold in 

 market ; wait till you eat a Daniel O Rourke pea, and 

 then you can say you know what peas are. There are 

 plenty of vegetables that you will be in time to plant; 

 the ground is plowed and harrowed, and the Irish 

 man is digging out the sods. A hard time he is hav 

 ing of it ; the grass got up too high, and he has to 

 break them up and shake each one out with a pitch 

 fork. No person should live in the country without 

 a garden ; mine is the greatest comfort I have, and 

 saves nearly half the expense of living.&quot; 



So, it being clearly an economy, my investigations 

 were pursued diligently. A long list of the best veg 

 etables still attainable was selected, consisting of early 

 Mohawk and Lima beans, blood turnip-rooted beets, 

 long orange carrots, long green cucumbers, sweet 

 corn, large green-head lettuce, silver-skinned onions, 

 Dutch parsnips, and Daniel O Rourke peas, and pur 

 chased at the seed-store for the moderate sum of four 

 dollars and fifty cents, according to the particular en- 



