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was one two years since. The Farmers Club is well attend 

 ed at the school-house every week, and the discussions are a 

 good intellectual treat to everybody that has a rod of land 

 to cultivate, and that is everybody here. The minister, the 

 lawyer, and the doctor, the schoolmaster and the judge, are 

 generally there, and the farmers come in from the whole 

 neighborhood. Now all this has come of the County fairs. 

 The Society has left its mark in everybody s yard or gar 

 den, dropping young shade trees, apples, pears, peaches, 

 cherries, grape vines, and flower borders. The homesteads 

 look more cheerful, and the people are more thriving in 

 their business. This year the Society has offered a pre 

 mium for every shade tree set out in the streets. We mean 

 to line every roadside in the County, within five years. 

 Even Jake Frink is beginning to dig holes to set out trees 

 this spring. His old friends will hardly know Jake, or his 

 establishment, in a few years more. 



Yours to command, 



TIMOTHY BUNKER, ESQ. 

 HooJcertown, Feb. 8th, 1859. 



No. 29. TIM BUNKER AT HOME AGAIN. 



MR. EDITOR : I have been gone from home four whole 

 months, and I do declare if they wa n t the longest months 

 I ever experienced. I haven t seen anything of your pa 

 per, and not much of any other, as to that matter, since I 

 went off, and I ve pretty much lost the run of things up 

 here in Connecticut and out in your village. It was curis 

 how it happened, so curis that I haven t got over my as 

 tonishment at the thought of my journey yet. I couldn t 



