THE TIM BUNKER PAPERS. 



third more barrels to hold em, and you don t git any thing 

 extra for your trouble. Some folks stop for Sunday, but 

 that don t make any difference with me. I never could 

 see but what pickles pick d Sunday brought jest as good 

 money as any other.&quot; 



&quot; Wai, now, I don t believe that suits Esther.&quot; 



&quot; No, it don t. She and the parson and all the children 

 have a runnin fight with me on that subject.&quot; 



&quot; I guess when you come to foot the bills in the final ac 

 count, you ll find that all the money you ve made by Sun 

 day work has burnt a hole in your pocket and dropped 

 out. But how many men does it take to attend to a 

 pickle patch ? &quot; 



&quot; You ought to have at least four to the acre, and they ll 

 have to be pretty smart to keep up with the work. It is 

 hard on the back until you get used to it. You can work 

 in boys pretty well, as they don t have so far to bend. 

 You want to pick one-half of the patch one day, and the 

 other half the next, and so on.&quot; 



&quot; What do you make your shed out of? &quot; 



&quot; Most any thing will do for that. Four crotched sticks 

 and two poles with rails laid across, and buckwheat straw 

 or any refuse hay put on to make a cover and shed rain, 

 will answer very well.&quot; 



&quot; How many pickles can you raise on an acre ? &quot; 



&quot; Well, there is about as much difference in pickles as 

 there is in any thing else. Your succoss depends some on 

 good seed, some on manure, and some on care, and a good 

 deal on luck.&quot; 



&quot; Just what do you mean by luck ? &quot; 



&quot; It s what man hasn t any thing to do with. Some 

 would call it the season, and some Providence. I call it 

 luck.&quot; 



&quot; I guess there is a Providence in the pickle crop as in 

 every thing else, and if the Almighty don t send rain, 

 you ll come out at the little end of the horn.&quot; 



