A MONEY-MAKING PASTIME. 



BY I. A. BARNES. 



We show in this issue a couple of scenes from a point in the South- 

 west, down along the Rio Grand, illustrating what might be called a 

 little pastime of a young fellow down there. 



The young man is a clerk in a banking house and wholesale mer- 

 chandise establishment, and last spring he took a notion to have a little 

 diversion from the routine city fun by renting apiece of ground about four 

 miles from the city and see what he could accomplish in the agricultural line 



of mornings and evenings outside of office hours. He obtained a piece 

 of land at a very small rental with an option of buying the tract later on, 

 and erected a little adobe house. He then secured the services of a man 

 of all work who is able to get up a good, substantial, though plain meal 

 and who could occupy himself the balance of the time with work in the 

 garden. 



The first thing was to clear off the ground, as it had never been un- 

 der cultivation before, and in one of the scenes the reader can see what 

 has been accomplished in this direction. In the foreground of the pic- 

 ture will be seen a nice lot of onions growing, while beyond can be seen 



