OLD HOMESTEAD 



as I had given father. There the matter ended, at least for 

 several years. I was most sorely grieved and troubled over the 

 matter, but never had the least idea of making a confession. 



After I grew up and was one day talking with my father 

 about the correct treatment and bringing up of children, I told 

 him the whole story. 



" Well," said he, ''why under the heavens did you do that? 

 Why didn't you tell me what had happened?" 



"Because I dared not. I was afraid. I knew I had done 

 wrong and didn't know what you would do about it." 



He whistled to himself and thought the matter over a little 

 while and said, ''Well, one thing you did learn, that when a lie 

 is told and turned loose, it takes a half-dozen others to support 

 it;" and from that day to this when I have seen a false witness 

 struggling along to bolster up his first lie, I have said to myself, 

 ^' I guess you have burnt your sugar." 



^ ^* v» 



SPRING WORK 



" The flowers appear on the earth ; 

 The time of the singing of birds has come, 

 And the voice of the turtle is heard in the land." 



The work of the early spring was largely affected and con- 

 trolled by the weather. If warm and dry, so the land could be 

 worked, the grain was sowed early. Oats, barley and peas 

 required to be put in early to insure the best results. Lorraine 

 was not much of a wheat country, although we did raise some 

 very good spring wheat by taking particular pains to prepare 

 and enrich the land. The soil of the farm was clayey and 



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