PAPERS. 



&quot; How is it going to work ?&quot; inquired Seth Twiggs. 



&quot;Ye don t expect that door will shet itself, and keep 

 the water eout, dew ye ?&quot; wondered Tucker and Jones. 



&quot; A great piece of folly !&quot; exclaimed Uncle Jotham. u Ye 

 see, this thing lias been tried time and agin, down on the 

 Island, and alters failed. Ben Miller had jest sich a con- 

 sarn, and tinkered away with it four or five years, and 

 gin it up as a humbug.&quot; 



&quot; Yes,&quot; said I, &quot; and Ben Miller tinkered with fish, and 

 spiled his land, you said, but you see what whopping 

 crops I get with fish, eighty bushels of corn to the acre, 

 and forty of rye. You see, Jotham Sparrowgrass, it was 

 never meant that one man should do everything.&quot; 



&quot; It is well Mr. Bunker has the money to lose on such 

 an experiment, remarked Mr. Spooner, who evidently had 

 as little faith in my success as our less intelligent neigh 

 bors. 



Well, last year I got a good crop, but there was a con 

 siderable black marsh and onion grass left, and occasional 

 weeds that rather spoiled the beauty of the meadow. But 

 this year the herds-grass and red-top, that I sowed two 

 years ago, got full possession, and a handsomer lot of 

 grass you never saw out of doors. It was a grand sight 

 on the morning of the llth of July, when we cut it, the 

 purple tassels of the herds-grass standing just about four 

 feet high, and the red-top a little shorter, a thick mat of 

 heavy grass, in many places good for three and a half tons 

 to the acre. I tried to get my neighbors all out to see it, 

 but it was hard work to get some of the sceptics along 

 the road anywhere in sight of it, they were so determined 

 that nothing but salt marsh grass should grow there for 

 ever. 



I suppose I have ruined myself for life in the esteem of 

 Deacon Little, who, having seen the hay, and heard the 

 talk of the people, thinks I must have had resort to the 

 black art to get the crop. The Deacon is about half right, 



